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Seasonal variations in coronary heart disease Oxford Journals Medicine QJM: An International Journal of Medicine Volume 92, Issue 12 Pp. 689-696. Abstract Coronary heart disease exhibits a winter peak and summer trough in incidence and mortality, in countries both north and south of the equator. In England and Wales, the winter peak accounts for an [...]
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Ten years to wait for this research to come to fruition? How about taking some of the billions from the money from the TSA/airport security and putting it to heart research. People apparently fear terrorism more than heart attacks…. Guess which one is more likely, by about 10,000 to one odds, if not more…. from [...]
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This article suggests an interesting variable in the research about depression, happiness and heart disease — that it is the expression of the happiness, and not just an internal feeling of happiness, that it is the critical variable. It makes me wonder whether this also applies to depression — if one actually expresses the depression [...]
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J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:456 HOSTILITY AND HEART DISEASE Hostile men, but not women, are more than twice as likely to suffer from recurrent coronary heart disease (CHD). Researchers used data from the Nova Scotia Health Survey 1995 to identify participants with CHD at baseline, whose outcomes were compared against their hostility data (also taken [...]
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Fiber is one of those nutrients that many of us know is important but that remains a bit of a mystery. Exactly what is it? What are the best sources of fiber? And what are its health benefits? Here we try to answer these and other questions. Vegetables and Fruits: Get Plenty Every Day: How [...]
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Anxiety ridden heart patients face higher death risk July 6, 2010 Sify News Does anxiety expose heart patients to higher risk of stroke, heart failure and death? The answer is yes, of course, but researchers in the Netherlands have now quantified the risk and found that anxiety affects 24 percent to 31 percent of such [...]
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