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Risks: Resting Heart Rate as Simple Biomarker By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published: January 2, 2012 A large study has found that a rise in resting heart rate over a decade may indicate an increased risk of death from coronary artery disease. Norwegian researchers studied 30,000 healthy men and women age 20 and older, checking heart rates [...]
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Balding Men Could Face Higher Heart Risks, Study Finds WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) — New research out of Japan shows a potential link between male baldness and an increased risk for coronary heart disease. But it only affects men who are balding on top. Those with a receding hairline are not at risk, the [...]
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Scientists Link 13 New Gene Regions to Heart Disease Risk March 6 (HealthDay News) – In what may be the largest global investigation of its kind, scientists have implicated 13 new gene regions in the onset of heart vessel plaque build-up, a condition that often leads to fatal heart attacks. The discovery doubles the number [...]
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When the Framingham study found a correlation between heart disease and cholesterol levels, the assumption became that eating eggs was bad, since eggs include high level of cholesterol. Whoops. Faulty thinking. Millions of us have been deprived of eating eggs because of this faulty assumption. Check out these findings: A Review of Scientific Research and [...]
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In the 80′s, research suggested that being married to an educated woman was a heart disease risk. Now it seems to be a factor in risk reduction. What has changed? The inquiring mind wants to know… Is the research better? Are educated women less stressed than they used to be? Are men more used to [...]
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It is hard to know what to believe these days. Medical research is frequently biased (often by drug money) and off the mark. Since the 1980′s, articles have been appearing about the “diagonal ear crease” (pictured below) and heart disease and mortality due to heart problems. Some physicians dismiss it as related to aging; however, [...]
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Persistently Noisy Workplace More Than Doubles Heart Disease Risk ScienceDaily Oct. 8, 2010 — A persistently noisy workplace more than doubles an employee’s risk of serious heart disease, suggests research published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Young male smokers seemed to be particularly at risk, the findings showed. The researchers base their findings on [...]
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It never occurred to me to do a Wikipedia search about coffee; it was shown as a link in a Google search. Surprisingly – or not surprisingly — the Wikipedia article was the most thorough review I have found on the effects of coffee to date. Clearly, whether or not coffee is good for you [...]
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Wall Street Journal June 15, 2010 Some prominent doctors are pushing a heretical notion: Physicians have been prescribing statins to some of the wrong people. For years, Americans have been taking statins, among the most widely used drugs in the world, with the aim of getting their cholesterol numbers down to target levels. People are [...]
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Medical News Today; May 11, 2010 A study of 10,000 civil servants in London, England found that people who worked three or more hours longer than a normal 7-hour day had a 60% higher risk of developing heart related problems, such as death from heart disease, non-fatal heart attacks and angina. “The association between long [...]
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