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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Biomedcentral.com: April 10, 2012. Understanding the signs and symptoms of heart attacks and strokes are important not only in saving lives, but also in preserving quality of life. Findings from recent research have yielded that the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors are higher in rural populations, suggesting that adults living in rural locales may be […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Circ.ahajournals.org: April 10, 2012. Background—Framingham-based and Reynolds Risk scores for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction have not been directly compared in an independent validation cohort. Methods and Results—We selected a case-cohort sample of the multiethnic Women’s Health Initiative Observational Cohort, comprising 1722 cases of major CVD (752 myocardial infarctions, 754 ischemic strokes, and 216 other CVD […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Archinte.ama-assn.org: April 9, 2012. A Meta-analysis of Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Trials Sang Mi Kwak, MD; Seung-Kwon Myung, MD; Young Jae Lee, MD, MS; Hong Gwan Seo, MD, PhD; for the Korean Meta-analysis Study Group Arch Intern Med. Published online April 9, 2012. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.262 Background Although previous randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials reported the efficacy of omega-3 fatty acid supplements in the secondary […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Newsatjama.jama.com: Women’s Health — Bridget M. Kuehn @ 3:06 pm, April 9, 2012. Smoking mentholated cigarettes may increase stroke risk in certain individuals, a study published today in theArchives of Internal Medicine suggests. Many questions remain about the health effects of smoking mentholated vs nonmentholated cigarettes. Some evidence suggests that smoking mentholated cigarettes increases the likelihood of developing a smoking habit. Other […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Stroke.ahajournals.org: April 5, 2012. Background and Purpose—The Framingham Heart Study group cardiovascular disease risk profile (FCRP) score was used to assess the relationship between baseline cardiovascular risk and subsequent changes in resting state cerebral blood flow (CBF) in cognitively normal older participants from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Methods—Ninty-seven cognitively normal participants underwent annual […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Circgenetics.ahajournals.org: Aril 3, 2012. Background—The left and right atria have different susceptibilities towards developing arrhythmias, with left atrial arrhythmias more commonly observed. To understand the molecular basis for such differences, we catalogued miRNA and mRNA expression differences by next generation sequencing. Methods and Results—Four human left-right atrial pairs were subjected to whole-genome expression analyses via […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Minorityhealth.hhs.gov: April 4, 2012. In April 1915, Dr. Booker T. Washington dispatched a letter to the leading African American newspapers, proposing the observance of “National Negro Health Week.” Health was the key to progress and equity in all other things, he argued: “Without health and long life, all else fails.” He called on local health […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Medicalxpress.com: April 2, 2012. Women seem to be at greater risk than men, the research indicates. It is well known that asbestos workers are already prone to serious lung disease, such as mesothelioma and asbestosis, as a direct result of their exposure to asbestos fibres. The researchers set out to explore the impact of asbestos as aninflammatory agent on […]
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
News-medical.net: March 29, 2012 at 2:17 AM Identified stroke patients with 99.3 percent specificity If a paramedic suspects a patient is having a stroke, the paramedic is probably right, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found. Researchers examined the records of 5,300 patients who were brought to Loyola’s emergency room by emergency medical services (EMS). Paramedics […]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Cdc.gov: March 26 – April 1 is World Salt Awareness Week. There is strong evidence that eating too much sodium raises blood pressure, and high blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke. About 9 in 10 Americans aged 2 years and older eat too much sodium. Most of the sodium we eat […]
