Deadly form of high cholesterol can catch Black Americans by surprise
Chad Gradney underwent quadruple bypass open-heart surgery at age 27, and afterward spent eight fruitless years battling extremely high cholesterol levels.
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Chad Gradney underwent quadruple bypass open-heart surgery at age 27, and afterward spent eight fruitless years battling extremely high cholesterol levels.
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Cardiac conditions in women are underdiagnosed, undertreated, and under-researched compared to those in men. In a prospective study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, investigators report that attending a multidisciplinary ...
Sep 7, 2022
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After recovering from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, many people complain of persistent heart complaints, such as poor exercise tolerance, palpitations or chest pain, even if the infection was mild and there were no known heart ...
Sep 6, 2022
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Chest pain is one of the leading reasons for adult emergency room visits in the United States, accounting for more than 7 million visits annually. Properly identifying and treating dangerous and life-threatening causes of ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Heart attacks in women are more likely to be fatal than in men. The reasons are differences in age and in comorbidity burden which make risk assessment in women a challenge. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now ...
Aug 29, 2022
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A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RECOVER Pediatric Electronic Health Records (EHR) Cohort and authored by Suchitra Rao, MD, infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital Colorado, found ...
Aug 29, 2022
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The gout medicine allopurinol has failed to reduce the primary endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke or cardiovascular death in patients with ischemic heart disease, according to late breaking research ...
Aug 29, 2022
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In yet another example of the financial toll that the new coronavirus has exacted during the pandemic, a new report estimates that up to 4 million Americans are out of work as they struggle with long COVID.
Aug 26, 2022
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A review of the latest research highlights the most reported symptoms of various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), noting that men and women often experience different symptoms, according to a new American Heart Association ...
Aug 18, 2022
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In California and across the country, more people are likely to die from lung cancer than any other cancer, the American Lung Association states in an August press release, as wildfire season is in full swing.
Aug 8, 2022
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