Compared with those eating the low-fat diet, the extra-virgin-olive-oil group showed a 30% lower risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying of heart disease after five years, while those consuming the Mediterranean diet with more nuts showed a 28% lower risk of these outcomes.
Instead, the trial found that patients on Vioxx longer than 18 months had twice the risk of getting a heart attack or stroke of those on a placebo.
The trial showed that patients randomized to chelation therapy had a lower risk of a combined endpoint of death, heart attack, stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, bypass surgery or hospitalization for angina than those who received a placebo infusion.
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She did not die of a heart attack but of a stroke, according to the death certificate signed by her personal physician.
This is despite the fact the drugs are restricted to only those with a 30% chance of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years.
Roughly 25, 000 Americans are stuck in a vegetative state as a result of suffering brain damage from a car accident or other trauma, or after their brain has been deprived of oxygen following a stroke or heart attack.
For 40-year-olds who had been prone to distress as a child, the chances of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years increased from 3.2% to 4.2% for women and 7.3 to 8.5% for men.
It recently announced that it had found a gene that increases the risk of stroke, and it also has found a gene that boosts the risk of heart attack.
Those who consumed the least salt had a 56 percent higher risk of death from a heart attack or stroke compared with those who had the highest consumption, even after controlling for obesity, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, and other risk factors.
But each had died of natural causes a lethal recurrence of the heart attack or stroke that had hit him in the first place.
Aspirin can also be used as a long term treatment for those with a history of heart attack and stroke, or who have peripheral arterial disease, stable angina or atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart rhythm.
Slightly more than 6 percent of the participants had a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular emergency during the study, roughly one-third of which were fatal.
To learn more about the warning signs of a heart attack or stroke, visit the American Heart Association website.
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But the report found that while aspirin may slow changes in cognitive ability in women at high risk of a heart attack or stroke, it made no difference to the rate at which the women developed dementia - which was also examined for by a neuropsychiatrist.
Studies have shown patients who take statins within days of having a heart attack cut their risk of going on to have a stroke by half.
Plaintiffs will have to pass through three gates, first providing evidence of a heart attack or ischemic stroke, proof they received at least 30 Vioxx pills, and evidence they took at least one of the pills within 14 days of injury.
After years of controversy, the Food and Drug Administration has asked Abbott Laboratories to yank the weight loss drug Meridia, generically known as sibutramine, from the market as a result of a large clinical trial that found the drug increased the rate of heart attack and stroke in patients at high cardiovascular risk.
Thirty-five, or 1.5%, of the patients who received Pargluva died or suffered from a heart attack or stroke, compared with only nine, or 0.7%, of those who received Actos or placebo--roughly a doubling of risk.
Merck is suffering through the hardest period of its history, after pulling arthritis drug Vioxx off pharmacy shelves because it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in a clinical study.
Overall, only 2.5 percent of women in the study had experienced a stroke, heart attack, or related problem.
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You did this because 50 is just too young to drop dead of a heart attack, diabetes or a stroke.
Pfizer pulled all Celebrex advertising in December 2004 after a study found an increased risk of heart attack and stroke related to the pill.
Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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The strong advice - from these researchers and from other experts - is that those WITH a history of cardiovascular disease - such as heart attack or stroke - should continue with daily aspirin.
The journal that published a key Merck study has withdrawn the conclusion that it takes 18 months for Vioxx to increase patients' risk of heart attack and stroke, potentially dealing a blow to the drug company, both in its public image and its legal battles.
But AtheroGenics claims that the trial actually shows a statistically significant benefit in preventing the combination of heart attack, stroke and death.
The drug was pulled from the market two years ago after a study found that it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Compared with people who rarely ate chocolate (about one bar per month), the people who ate the most chocolate (slightly more than one bar per week) had a 27 percent and 48 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke, respectively, the researchers found.
During that time, 15% of patients taking Vytorin and 18% of patients in the control group had a heart attack, stroke, stent procedure, or death from cardiac causes.
Dr Stroud said the chances of an overweight but active individual having a serious heart attack or stroke are raised by only 20% compared to a lean active individual, whereas an inactive lean individual is close to being at 300% greater risk.
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