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Statins Prescribed To Those Who Are At a Risk Of Developing A Heart Disease

...ailable it can cut down the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart operations....

Blood Clotting Protein Discovered

...aused by interactions between blood platelets when strokes and heart// attacks take place, which are altogether uncontrolled. The GPIIb/IIIa is kept in an inactive state by the CIB1. The interactions between platelets in the blood are also prevented because of this. The CIB1 thus plays the role of a gatek...

Risk Of Stroke Can Be Lessened By Proper Diet

...en saved from either disability or even death from strokes if only they had consumed more vegetables // and f...ts. Vegetables and fruits serve to reduce risks of strokes according to latest research which is the first large scale project studying the risk. Unhealthy die...

Government Advertisement Faces Criticism For Wrong Salt Claim

...umption by 50% could prevent the high incidence of strokes and heart attacks in Britain. With the ever-increasing sale of healthy food, most UK citizens have indeed switched over to a diet, comprising of fruits and vegetables. Most of them have, in addition have limited or stopped the intake of salt. Howe...

60 Million People Would Die Due To NCD In India

...nternational symposium on cardiovascular diseases, strokes and diabetes at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. 'While India is poised to receive an 11 percent downturn in infectious diseases in 2006, the country would witness a 35 percent growth in diabetic patients and 18 percent growth...

Xenon Could Limit Nerve Damage After Stroke

...lutionize the way to treat patients suffering from strokes in whom brain damage and damage to nerve cells is always a risk. In a report published in Anesthesiology, the reserachers detail the fact that earlier preclinical studies had shown that xenon was a neuroprotectant. This discovery was made while Pro...

Increased Risk of Clot with Birth-Control Patch

...aken to analyze the incidence of heart attacks and strokes in women who use the patch or pill, the results of which is expected in 18 months....

Space suit technology to Protect Against Heat Strokes

...kers' ability to remain cool.” Nearly 1500 heat strokes are reported in Europe and this happens due to the...isture through the clothing. Many times these heat strokes can be fatal unless they receive immediate medical attention. Agnieszka Kurchewska, from the Polis...

Military Veterans Suffer From Increased Risk of Heart Diseases

...ns suffer from increased risk of heart attacks and strokes than others. // It was found that combat veterans suffer 10-year risk of heart disease and is more than 3% higher than the non-veterans. The results were presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) annual conference on Cardiovascular Disease, ...

Warfarin the Not So Popular Drug for Stroke

...rfarin use was associated with a 35 % reduction in strokes than the 65% which as proposed during the clinical trials. The drug was even less effective in preventing stroke among minority patients. Dr. Elaine M. Hylek at Boston University School of Medicine and her associates to determine the reasons why ph...

Crestor to Prevent Heart Disease

...eposits is a major breakthrough. Heart attacks and strokes are the biggest killers in this country. Hence if there is a way to reduce atherosclerosis then it is something very exciting and useful. ...

Carotid Stenting Can Help Patients With Silent Disease

...ng the risk of stroke. Approximately 25 percent of strokes are caused by carotid artery disease. Carotid artery stenting is a minimally invasive procedure that combines balloon angioplasty and a stent implant to unblock and reopen the carotid artery.Columbia University Medical Center provides international...

Could Long Tern Vioxx Users Suffer From Heart Attacks?

...e same study and revealed that the study found six strokes among naproxen users and none for Vioxx patients. Merck pulled its $2.5 billion-a-year pain drug off the market in September 2004 after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients. The current trial is the first to inv...

Infections Increase Risks Of Deep Vein Thrombosis

...cause an increase in the risk of heart attacks and strokes was always known. But in studies conducted on over of more than three million patient records from across the UK revealed that infection can also cause DVT. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that a relation e...

Chocolate to Treat Heart Disease

...ids, which in turn help to reduce blood pressure, strokes and heart disease. It has even been claimed to lower one's levels of LDL cholesterol, the bad cholesterol. However chocolates being also rich in fats and sugars may offset the benefits offered by flavanoids according to some researchers. Flavonoid...

A furore over tailor-made menopause medication

...d the risks of HRT and linked it to heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer, after which many women sought the refuge of these products sold by the compounding pharmacies. Wyeth has requested the FDA to restrain these pharmacies with seizures, injunctions, and warning letters, as some of them could be chea...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

... between solar energy surges and the occurrence of strokes in human beings//. Neurologists who traced about 6,800 strokes and related cerebral attacks in a region of Slovakia are studying whether solar cycles, solar wind a...

How To Prevent A Stroke

...gh risk of stroke because research shows that many strokes can be prevented if those individuals modify their risk factors," Goldstein said. Some new recommendations for "well-documented" stroke risk factors include: 1) Refer patients with rare genetic causes of stroke for genetic counseling, 2) Treat high...

Tomatoes Have Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Properties

...ting properties, making it ideal for prevention of strokes and heart attacks.// Previous studies have already established cancer protection properties of the chemical. According to scientists, the stickiness of platelets - the particles in blood that cause clotting - was reduced by 70 percent when 220 volu...

Canada Warns High BP Patients about ADHD Drug Side Effects

...in certain patients it results in cardiac arrests, strokes or death. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are analyzing the reports of patients who had suffered sudden deaths, and other psychotic behavior such as hallucinations. Some of the ADHD drugs which are to be shunned by these patients are Adde...

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