Jali, who is part of the country's provisional squad, was diagnosed with a mild cardiovascular problem on Friday.

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And those with ED were 1.6 times more likely to suffer from a serious cardiovascular problem such as a heart attack or stroke.

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By the end of the study, 215 of the study participants had experienced a heart attack or other cardiovascular problem, and 325 had died from any cause.

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Furthermore, 27 percent of the surgery group but only 13 percent of the monitoring group developed a cardiovascular problem such as a heart attack, heart disease or stroke.

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The withdrawal "is consistent with our expectations that if there was a cardiovascular problem, the more potent the drug, the more likely the side effect, " says Leonard Yaffe, an analyst at Banc of America Securities.

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People who spent at least four hours per day watching TV, playing video games, or using a computer for fun were more than twice as likely as those who kept their recreational "screen time" under two hours to experience a heart attack, stroke, or other serious cardiovascular problem, the study found.

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Ding, Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor at University of California San Francisco, is one of the scientists aiming to solve this problem by generating stem cells using chemical methods.

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