Earlier research suggested that the more of the protein in people's blood, the more likely they are to develop heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The hopeful women were also thirty percent less likely to have died from heart disease after the eight years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Researchers have increasingly tried to use these biomarkers to identify people who are at high risk of developing heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

In low and middle income countries, heart disease and cancer get much of the attention given to chronic diseases.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He named the Linda Pollin Memorial Housing Project after one of his two children who died of heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

But a new study shows that India's leading causes of death now also include obesity-related diseases such as heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

A separate study found no support for a theory that a biomarker called C-reactive protein causes heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The researchers say that about two thousand of tropicalis' genes are similar to human genes linked to cancer, asthma and heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

And another study has linked each hour of watching television daily to an eighteen percent increased risk of death from heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The soldiers without spleens were two times as likely to die of heart disease as the soldiers who still had their spleens.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

But one thing is sure. Developing countries need more of them as more people get heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Doctor Thomas helped Doctor Allam organize the mummy study to find out what modern methods could show about heart disease in ancient patients.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker.

VOA: special.2010.03.09