Progeria Could Offer Clues to Heart Disease in General Population - MedIndia


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Progeria Could Offer Clues to Heart Disease in General Population
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All children with Progeria die of the same heart disease that affects millions of normal aging adults (atherosclerosis), but instead of occurring at 60 or ...

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Passive smoking affects 88 million Americans - CDC report - Food Consumer

Passive smoking affects 88 million Americans - CDC report
Food Consumer
... kidney disease, acute stroke, acute heart attack or myocardial infarction, and atherosclerosis. Below is the CDC report originally published in MMWR. ...

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Atherosclerosis Starts Early in RA - MedPage Today

Atherosclerosis Starts Early in RA
MedPage Today
Note that the endpoint of this study was intima-media thickness, a surrogate marker for early atherosclerotic ...

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Diet is key to lowering bad cholesterol - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Diet is key to lowering bad cholesterol
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Together with other substances, this can form plaque – a condition know as atherosclerosis. When the artery eventually becomes occluded, a heart attack or ...
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Atkins Diet Increases All-Cause Mortality - Huffington Post (blog)

Atkins Diet Increases All-Cause Mortality
Huffington Post (blog)
A recent study reviewed in The New England Journal of Medicine found that an Atkins-type diet "promotes atherosclerosis (heart disease) through mechanisms ...

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WBEN Extra: Back To School Day II - WBEN 930

WBEN Extra: Back To School Day II
WBEN 930
... disease in children, and atherosclerosis -- the dangerous build-up of cholesterol, calcium, fat and other substances in artery walls -- in adults.

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HDL Mimetic Targets Atherosclerosis - Drug Discovery & Development

HDL Mimetic Targets Atherosclerosis
Drug Discovery & Development
This class of drugs removes cholesterol from the vessel wall to treat high-risk atherosclerosis, including acute coronary syndrome (ACS). ...

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AstraZeneca Encourages All Americans to Take Steps to Manage Their Cholesterol ... - MarketWatch (press release)

AstraZeneca Encourages All Americans to Take Steps to Manage Their Cholesterol ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CRESTOR effectively lowers LDL-C (bad cholesterol), raises HDL-C (good cholesterol), and is also indicated to slow the progression of atherosclerosis (the ...

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This Day In History

St. Augustine: the oldest permanent European settlement in the US was founded (1565)

Quote of the day

"I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy."

by Steven Wright