Comments (11) | Post a CommentThree Medicines, One Pill to Prevent Heart Attacks
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Oct 17, 2006, 1:49 pm PDTLast year I wrote about a proposal by two researchers at the University of London. They proposed in 2003 that everyone who is over the age of 55 or has heart disease should take a "polypill" to lower their…Read More
Do You Know Your Stroke Risk?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, May 26, 2006, 3:54 pm PDTMost of the risk factors for stroke are the same as those for coronary heart disease. The glaring exception is blood cholesterol, which is generally not useful in predicting who will have a stroke. Therefore,…Read More
Does a Patent Foramen Ovale Increase Stroke Risk?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Wed, Jan 18, 2006, 8:06 am PSTOne of my recent entries described a possible relationship between strokes and a patent foramen ovale. The foramen ovale is an opening in the fetus between the right and left sides of the heart that usually…Read More
Statins Approved for Stroke
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Mon, Nov 07, 2005, 4:22 pm PSTYou may have seen a newspaper article reporting that the Food and Drug Administration has approved atorvastatin (Lipitor) for the prevention of stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes and in people without…Read More
Does Aspirin Protect Healthy Women from Heart Attacks?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Sep 01, 2005, 1:02 pm PDTApparently not, but low-dose aspirin may protect against strokes. Nearly 40,000 apparently healthy women aged 45 or older in the Women?s Health Study were randomly assigned to take either a placebo or 100 mg of…Read More
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