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Quiz: Your Heart-Health Nutrition Knowledge
Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:21 am PDTThis heart-health quiz will give you an idea of how well you're keeping up with the latest heart-health diet information.
Post a Comment (46)Blood Pressure: Can You Avoid Medications?
Posted Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 1:41 pm PDTEven if they follow an appropriate lifestyle, a large number of Americans will still need one or more anti-hypertensive medications to control their…
Post a Comment (12)A New, Different Type of Blood Pressure Drug
Posted Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 6:42 pm PDTThe 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…
Post a Comment (9)Prehypertension Worse Than Smoking for Postmenopausal Women
Posted Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 6:09 am PDTResearchers point out that prehypertension was associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular events than the widely known risk factor of smoking,…
Post a Comment (1)Women and Heart Disease, Part 1: Aspirin Confusion
Posted Thu, Mar 08, 2007, 4:27 am PSTThe 2007 update of the American Heart Association's guidelines for women has led to some confusion regarding the use of aspirin.
Post a Comment (4)ACE Inhibitors Harmful in Pregnancy
Posted Fri, Mar 02, 2007, 9:33 am PSTWhat should you do if you are one of the millions of American women being treated for high blood pressure and you become pregnant?
Post a Comment (2)Atherosclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Posted Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 3:29 am PSTThese findings underscore the fact that patients with rheumatoid arthritis must receive aggressive management of all their risk factors for…
Post a Comment (4)Torcetrapib: A Case of Profits vs. Patient Benefits
Posted Thu, Dec 14, 2006, 11:26 pm PSTClinical trials on the drug were recently stopped because participants taking it were dying in greater numbers than those who weren't.
Wider Use of Heart Attack Screening Tests Recommended
Posted Sun, Dec 03, 2006, 2:20 pm PSTNew guidelines from the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention Education (SHAPE) Task Force are far more aggressive than those of the American Heart…
Post a Comment (1)More Benefits From Statins
Posted Wed, Nov 29, 2006, 4:20 pm PSTStatins 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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