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Traditional Risk Assessment Tools Do Not Accurately Predict Coronary Heart Disease

September 16, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

The Framingham and National Cholesterol Education Program tools, NCEP, do not accurately predict coronary heart disease, according to a study performed at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT.

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Dietary Formula That Maintains Youthful Function Into Old Age

September 7, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, [...]

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Heart Attack Risk Of Diabetes Drug: Experts Call For Avandia To Be Withdrawn

September 7, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

A diabetes drug taken by up to 100,000 patients increases the risk of heart attacks and should be withdrawn on safety grounds, senior doctors say today. A report by the British Medical Journal says Avandia should never have been licensed in Britain because its risks outweigh its benefits. One UK expert has calculated that the drug may cause as many as 1,000 extra heart attacks a year in Britain.

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‘Jailbreak’ Bacteria Can Trigger Heart Disease

September 7, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Plaque-causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of heart attack, says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology’s autumn meeting in Nottingham.

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Chronic Insomnia With Short Sleep Duration Is Significant Risk Factor For Hypertension

September 2, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to demonstrate that chronic insomnia with objectively measured short sleep time is an independent and clinically significant risk factor for hypertension.

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Moderate Coffee Consumption Improves Aortic Distensibility In Hypertensive Elderly Individuals, Study Finds

August 31, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

A detailed study conducted by a team from the University of Athens on the Aegean island of Ikaria has demonstrated that moderate consumption of coffee by hypertensive elderly individuals can lead to improvements in aortic distensibility, according to a presentation at the European Society of Cardiology’s Congress 2010 in Stockholm.

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Eating Berries May Activate the Brain’s Natural Housekeeper For Healthy Aging

August 24, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Scientists have reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study, presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), concluded that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain’s natural “housekeeper” mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline.

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Modest Gain In Visceral Fat Causes Dysfunction Of Blood Vessel Lining In Lean, Healthy Humans

August 19, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

When lean healthy young adults gained about 9 pounds, the functioning of their blood vessel lining became impaired — but shedding the weight restored proper functioning, according to a Mayo Clinic research report. The finding is important because this vessel disorder, known as endothelial dysfunction, is a predictor of heart attacks and stroke, and the effects of modest weight gain on the disorder were not previously known.

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Vitamin D May Treat Or Prevent Allergy To Common Mold

August 18, 2010 Asthma Research

Research conducted by Dr. Jay Kolls, Professor and Chair of Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and colleagues, has found that vitamin D may be an effective therapeutic agent to treat or prevent allergy to a common mold that can complicate asthma and frequently affects patients with Cystic Fibrosis.

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Brain May Age Faster In People Whose Hearts Pump Less Blood

August 17, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Keep your heart healthy and you may slow down the aging of your brain, according to a new study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the study, people whose hearts pumped less blood had brains that appeared older than the brains of those whose hearts pumped more blood.

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Larger Waist Associated With Greater Risk Of Death

August 17, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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Disrupted Circadian Rhythm May Cause Triglycerides To Rise

August 4, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

When the circadian rhythm gets thrown off, it could come with an unexpected side effect: high triglycerides. The discovery, based on studies in mice with a “broken clock,” helps to explain the normal rise and fall in triglycerides, which happens at about the same time each day, according to researchers who report their findings in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.

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