The main side effects are low heart rate and shivering.
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The baby, who weighed 2.8 kilograms (6 pounds, 2.8 ounces), had a low heart rate and some minor abrasions on his head and limbs, but was mostly unhurt, according to Zhejiang Online, the province's official news site.
The differences in the risk of heart attack weren't, possibly because of the low incidence of heart attacks among people in the study, researchers said.
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The heart attacks occurred in the final five weeks of the trial and in patients at low risk for heart problems.
Sure, critics said, it might benefit some people who had a low risk of heart attacks and a high risk of stomach bleeding.
Because the patients in the study had a relatively low risk of heart attack, the absolute benefit of taking Crestor was still very small.
These might have predicted, for instance, which Vioxx patients were at low risk for heart attacks but could not take other painkillers due to stomach problems.
He maintains that the right Cox-2 pill could be a boon to patients who are at high risk for stomach bleeding and low risk for heart attacks.
Statins are among the safest drugs on the market, but in patients at very low risk of heart attack, their potential muscle- and liver-damaging side effects become more worrisome.
To put that another way, if you are at low risk of heart disease, then there is a 99.9% probability that taking statins for a year will give you no benefit.
The particular version of the protein was found in a population of Italians who had a remarkably low risk of heart attacks, even though they had high triglycerides and other danger signs for heart disease.
Half of all heart attack survivors have a damaged heart called low ejection fraction.
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Storm surges have the potential to be dangerous because they involve a great upwelling of a stretch of ocean - intense low pressure at the heart of a storm literally tugs the sea surface above its normal level to create a massive bulge.
Some studies showed that people with gene defects that caused low CETP levels had less heart disease.
The inflammation theory helps explain why even someone with low cholesterol can have a heart attack, and why so many patients with no previous symptoms can suddenly be struck down.
These data are intriguing, but because low vitamin D levels and heart disease are both very common, and because this was not an interventional study, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions, other than more research is probably warranted.
We stoop through low passages which spiral around the heart of the machine: the kitchen.
But he also has existing heart disease and a low level of so-called "good" cholesterol, a combination the study says doubles his chances of a stroke.
Novartis hopes to show that Prexige avoids nasty ulcers better than the older compounds without increasing cardiovascular complications, even in patients who are taking low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks.
San Jose had very low death rates from cancer and heart disease, the lowest percentage of smokers in any of the 100 cities in the ranking, and not much crime.
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In one Ikaria-funded study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine's David Lefer found that low doses of hydrogen sulfide slashed heart damage by 72% in mice after heart attacks, even without inducing hibernation.
Patients in trials receive such good treatment these days that their heart attack rate is very low.
For years, heart experts were focused on low-fat diets, but "we've really shifted our focus to thinking about other components, " Dr. Jackson said.
Since the late 1960s, aspirin makers have been trying to win the right to tell the public that a daily low-dose tablet can help prevent heart disease.
Kim says the rates were still relatively low--an extra seven cases of heart disease for every thousand patients.
Three studies of post-menopausal women show low- fat diets don't prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer.
Yesterday, a Pfizer-funded study showed that high doses of Lipitor prevented heart attacks and strokes better than low ones.
Another persistent criticism is that low-carb diets increase the risk of heart disease, although defenders argue the science doesn't support this.
The overall rate of heart attacks and cardiac deaths was low to begin with and was not significantly changed by doing the fancy artery imaging.
For instance, aspirin seems to prevent heart attacks and cause strokes in low-risk medicine, but a controversial study showed it did the opposite in women.
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