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(As has been mentioned before, in my opinion Cardiologist Richard Fogoros publishes the most medically reliable heart information on the Web..) My own experience with statins is that all of them had side effects of muscle weakness and pain…. For months I attributed it to an exercise program, but by gong to such sites as [...]
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Taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack? Doctors warn stopping can pose serious risks.br/> CBS News July 21, 2011 Ryan Jaslow Doctors have long said taking daily low-dose aspirin helps prevent a myocardial infarction, or heart attack. But a new study warns these patients that they shouldn’t stop taking aspirin- or they could die. Spanish [...]
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It is rare to supplements such as hawthorne to get support from research… Hard to argue with the Cochrane Review… By the way, what brilliant diagnostician came up with the term “Heart Failure”? Just the diagnosis made me depressed, when in reality my heart had successfully survived a heart attack… Can we change this term [...]
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From the article: One of the strongest and best-studied factors that thickens someone’s arteries is age, and that happens at around 10 microns per year,” Shah says. “In our study, users of antidepressants see an average 40 micron increase in IMT, so their carotid arteries are in effect four years older. This implications of this [...]
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Although at present I can find no research about increased risks from Plavix because of a trauma, this research about Warfarin suggests that it may be a problem. One is told to stop Plavix about ten days before surgery due to increased bleeding; this suggests that one should also stop Plavix ten days before any [...]
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40-Point Cholesterol Drop=20% Lower Heart Risk Heart Disease Protection Tied to Cholesterol Reduction Achieved With Drugs WebMD Health News Sept. 27, 2005 — The heart disease protection offered by popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may be directly related to the degree they actually lower a person’s cholesterol levels. A new review of studies on statins shows [...]
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From the article: Although some statins are stronger than others, there’s no evidence that one is better than another at preventing heart attacks or other cardiovascular outcomes. National guidelines on lowering cholesterol treat the statins as equivalent. A study from the Boston VA Healthcare System supports this approach. Veterans who achieved the greatest reduction in [...]
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