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Quiz: Your Heart-Health Nutrition Knowledge
Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:21 am PDT
This heart-health quiz will give you an idea of how well you're keeping up with the latest heart-health diet information.
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Blood Pressure: Can You Avoid Medications?
Posted Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 1:41 pm PDT
Even if they follow an appropriate lifestyle, a large number of Americans will still need one or more anti-hypertensive medications to control their…
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A New, Different Type of Blood Pressure Drug
Posted Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 6:42 pm PDT
The recent FDA approval of Tekturna to treat high blood pressure is unusual because the United States is the first country where the drug has been…
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Prehypertension Worse Than Smoking for Postmenopausal Women
Posted Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 6:09 am PDT
Researchers point out that prehypertension was associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular events than the widely known risk factor of smoking,…
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Women and Heart Disease, Part 1: Aspirin Confusion
Posted Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 4:27 am PST
The 2007 update of the American Heart Association's guidelines for women has led to some confusion regarding the use of aspirin.
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ACE Inhibitors Harmful in Pregnancy
Posted Fri, Mar 02, 2007, 9:33 am PST
What should you do if you are one of the millions of American women being treated for high blood pressure and you become pregnant?
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Atherosclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Posted Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 3:29 am PST
These findings underscore the fact that patients with rheumatoid arthritis must receive aggressive management of all their risk factors for…
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Torcetrapib: A Case of Profits vs. Patient Benefits
Posted Thu, Dec 14, 2006, 11:26 pm PST
Clinical trials on the drug were recently stopped because participants taking it were dying in greater numbers than those who weren't.
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Wider Use of Heart Attack Screening Tests Recommended
Posted Sun, Dec 03, 2006, 2:20 pm PST
New guidelines from the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention Education (SHAPE) Task Force are far more aggressive than those of the American Heart…
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More Benefits From Statins
Posted Wed, Nov 29, 2006, 4:20 pm PST
Statins are widely used as the most effective medications we have to lower cholesterol, and recent research shows that statins also reduce the size of…
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