"There was a 44 percent reduction in death, heart attack, and stroke among people taking Crestor, " says Nissen.
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Her lawyers argue that Vioxx caused Irwin's heart-attack death.
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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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.
Shapira used the episode as an opportunity to decry the death of journalism and attack blogs for wielding the shiv.
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There was every reason to expect that Tricor, a pill sold by Abbott Laboratories, would reduce heart attack or death from heart disease.
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.
Sussex Police do not believe his Mr Polding's death was a random attack or linked to any hate crime as a result of his sexuality.
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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.
The hack appears to be a mere prank, rather than a truly damaging attack: Death in World of Warcraft is more of a nuisance than a real loss, and characters can be resurrected.
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The team of researchers, led by Dr Anastasis Stephanou, carried out laboratory tests on heart cells which found that a major chemical component of green tea known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) can reduce cell death after a heart attack or stroke.
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.
With his death from a massive heart attack today, Ken Lay cheated justice.
She said Mr McManus was known to the police but nothing justified the "brutal attack and the death of a young man".
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At Walt Disney World, families travel in packs - with younger kids waiting in the wings while older siblings attack rides with death-defying drops, and older siblings dragging their feet as younger kids wait in line for a photo op with Mickey.
But AtheroGenics claims that the trial actually shows a statistically significant benefit in preventing the combination of heart attack, stroke and death.
He said the death of Mr Bradley and the attack on the other house, which police initially responded to on Thursday night, were linked.
At the end of the study, 3.8% of the Mediterranean-diet-plus-olive-oil and 3.4% of the Mediterranean-diet-plus-nuts groups suffered a heart attack, stroke or death from cardiovascular disease.
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Adil Muhammed al-Zubaidi, who was representing former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, was shot to death on November 8 in an attack that left another lawyer wounded.
When Topol co-authored an influential paper on Vioxx and Celebrex in 2001, he and his colleagues looked at three certain signs of cardiovascular risk: heart attack, stroke and death.
Researchers found that participants taking Crestor cut their risk of heart attack, stroke and death by nearly half -- 44 percent -- compared with participants taking the placebo.
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If AtheroGenics had set heart attack, stroke and death as the main goal of its study, these results could lead to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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.
In a new analysis published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Steven Nissen and Eric Topol of the Cleveland Clinic write that Pargluva doubles the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
Two years later those who ate the Mediterranean diet had half the risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death compared with those who stayed on the regular low-fat diet, even though their cholesterol declined only a modest 14%.
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.
Indeed it does seem fairly obvious that it was an attack deliberately planned to cause death and injury.
Thankfully, there have been no recorded cases of a death or injury resulting from a cyber attack on the body.
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Five men have been charged with kidnapping, rape and murder, among other offenses, for allegedly carrying out the Dec. 16 attack and could face the death penalty if convicted.
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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