There had been pressure to release the information since the Bristol Royal Infirmary baby heart death scandal, when surgeons with higher than average death rates continued to operate on children.
There was every reason to expect that Tricor, a pill sold by Abbott Laboratories, would reduce heart attack or death from heart disease.
The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Heart disease death rates per 100, 000 people is 186 overall and 224 for African-Americans.
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In the face of the heart wrenching death toll, the U.S., the West and the rest of the world are feeling renewed pressure to take action.
The heart disease death rate has gradually gone down since the 1960s, but much of that progress has been in keeping patients alive once they had heart attacks, not from preventing the initial episode.
After seeing the heart attack death rate reduce in the UK in the last few years, there is a real risk that this figure could go back up if diabetes and obesity continue to rise as they currently are.
They show, for instance, that statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor can reduce the rate of heart attacks and death in people who have had previous heart attacks.
In the study researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that even just eating 1 to 2 servings of fish a week reduced the risk of death from heart disease by 36 percent, and overall death by 17 percent.
Decreased variability has been associated with an increased risk of heart disease and death.
For those with HoFH, heart attacks and death often occur before age 30.
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Multiple clinical trials have shown that cardiac stents are no more effective than drugs or lifestyle changes in preventing heart attacks or death.
None of the participants in the study had suffered a heart attack, death or other serious complication at a six-month follow-up after their procedure.
According to a press release issued to reporters, 13.2% of the patients receiving Tredaptive had a heart attack, heart-related death, stroke, or need for a stent procedure or bypass surgery.
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Her lawyers argue that Vioxx caused Irwin's heart-attack death.
Paul Donovan, a spokesman for the company, emphasizes that although the company has found some evidence for clots, the drug-coated stents do not significantly increased the risk of heart attack or death.
But those results had not been announced as the studies' primary goal ahead of time, and are generally considered "softer, " or less reliable, than the combined measure of heart attacks and death.
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The 6, 000-patient study was designed to show that AtheroGenics' drug, known by the code name AGI-1067, decreased the risk not only of heart attack, stroke and death but also of less important heart problems, including stent procedures, bypass surgery and chest pain.
It is supposed to be much more difficult to show a benefit in the "hard events"--heart attack, stroke and death--than in the broader swath of "extra" heart problems that AtheroGenics measured in its trial.
The disease is the leading cause of heart-related sudden death in people under 30.
Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) is an umbrella term for heart conditions that lead to sudden death.
"There was a 44 percent reduction in death, heart attack, and stroke among people taking Crestor, " says Nissen.
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They were also at modestly reduced risk of death from any cause, as well as death from heart failure.
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Primates held in captivity are at increased risk of death from heart-related disease.
Men who knocked back five or more drinks when they did indulge had a 30% greater risk for death via heart disease.
The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overall mortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.
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They said their findings, while not conclusive, suggested a long-term risk of death from heart disease is associated with the mother's genetic predisposition.
Which brings us to his father, a gifted musician and composer whose early death from heart disease left a profound mark on Mr. Kurzweil.
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