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Having a Heart Attack? Not on a Weekend
Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 8:01 pm PDT
Most hospitals provide only emergency or urgent care on weekends and reduce their total staff as well as the number of available experts to do…
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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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Finding the Trans Fats
Posted Tue, Sep 11, 2007, 9:53 am PDT
Trans fats are the unhealthiest kind of fat because they raise LDL cholesterol and lower protective HDL cholesterol.
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Lifelong Low LDL Cholesterol: Are You Off the Hook?
Posted Mon, Sep 10, 2007, 11:20 pm PDT
Some people are fortunate enough to have an uncommon genetic variant that speeds the removal of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the blood.
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Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diets
Posted Sun, Sep 09, 2007, 4:52 am PDT
Will the debate about the relative virtues of low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets for weight loss never end?
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Assessing Your Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Posted Fri, Sep 07, 2007, 1:26 pm PDT
Are there accurate ways to predict the likelihood that you will have, or die from, a heart attack or stroke in the near future?
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Waist-to-Hip Ratio vs. BMI: What's the Better Heart Disease Predictor?
Posted Thu, Sep 06, 2007, 4:29 pm PDT
Up to now, BMI has been the time-honored measure of the coronary risk associated with overweight and obesity. However, data from INTERHEART has shown…
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Good News About Estrogen Therapy After Menopause
Posted Sun, Jul 08, 2007, 6:56 pm PDT
Postmenopausal women and their doctors are getting tired of trying to use "evidence-based medicine" to make decisions about hormone replacement…
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Weight Loss Therapy May Improve Heart Health Markers
Posted Tue, Jul 03, 2007, 9:49 am PDT
The results of a study suggest that sibutramine might be an option for obese people with stable heart disease who fail to lose enough weight with…
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ED: Powerful Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease
Posted Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 3:01 pm PDT
Although an association between ED and coronary heart disease (CHD) was suggested more than 20 years ago, an outpouring of research studies over the…
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