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Coffee in Moderation May Lower Heart Failure Risk
June 26, 2012 -- Drinking coffee in moderation may reduce your risk of heart failure as you age, according to a new analysis. What's moderate? About two cups a day, if you're drinking the typical U.S. coffee serving, says researcher Murray Mittleman, MD, DrPH, director of cardiovascular epidemiology
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PTSD Unrecognized Risk Among Heart Attack Patients
June 20, 2012 -- A heart attack is a traumatic event, physically and emotionally, but cardiologists don't pay enough attention to post-traumatic stress disorder among their patients, according to the author of a new study. Not only does the disorder occur in 1 out of 8 such patients, the study shows
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Low Vitamin B6 Linked to Inflammation
June 19, 2012 -- Low levels of vitamin B6 may be a key factor involved with chronic inflammation in the body. But don't go rushing to the supplement aisle just yet. A new study shows a strong association between chronic inflammation and the essential vitamin found in foods such as lean meats, legume
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Exercises to Control Your Cholesterol
You’ve probably heard that exercise can help keep your cholesterol at a healthy level. But what kind of exercise? For how long, and how often? And how much of an impact can you really expect exercise to have on cholesterol levels? If you’re exercising the right way, the answer to that last question
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Study: Statins May Be Linked to Fatigue
June 11, 2012 -- Some people who take cholesterol-lowering statins may feel zapped of energy and/or experience fatigue during exercise, a new study shows. The reasons for that aren't clear. But "if you are finding it more difficult to sustain exercise or feel more fatigued, and take statins, I think
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Daily Aspirin: Worth the Risk?
June 7, 2012 -- Millions of people take aspirin every day to lower their heart attack and stroke risk, but new research may change some of that thinking. Daily aspirin use was associated with a higher-than-expected increase in the risk for major bleeding in an Italian study published this week in th
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Will Dark Chocolate a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
May 31, 2012 -- Should people at high risk of heart attack and stroke eat dark chocolate every day? Maybe, according to a new study from Australia. "Dark chocolate may be a pleasant and effective way of delivering important dietary components that can provide health benefits to the ever increasing n
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Calcium Supplements May Raise Heart Attack Risk
May 23, 2012 -- Calcium supplements should be taken ''with caution," Swiss and German researchers warn, as they may raise your risk of heart attack. "The increase [in risk] is, I would say, moderate," says Sabine Rohrmann, PhD, assistant professor of chronic disease epidemiology at the University of
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Raising HDL Levels May Not Lower Heart Attack Risk
May 16, 2012 -- It is widely believed that raising "good" cholesterol levels lowers heart attack risk, but surprising new research finds evidence that this may not be the case. Genetic studies failed to show a link between higher concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and lower
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Z-Pak Heart Attack?
May 16, 2012 -- Sudden heart death may be a new risk from the commonly prescribed antibiotic azithromycin -- better known as Zithromax or the Z-Pak. The finding comes from a study of Medicaid patients who received some 348,000 Z-Pak prescriptions from 1992 to 2006. Compared to patients who took no a
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