They show, for instance, that statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor can reduce the rate of heart attacks and death in people who have had previous heart attacks.
Also on Wednesday, Iraqi officials raised the death toll from attacks the previous day that shook Baghdad and towns north of the capital to 28.
Researchers at first planned to compare the rate of death, heart attacks and strokes in the two groups, but these were less frequent than anticipated.
For those with HoFH, heart attacks and death often occur before age 30.
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Multiple clinical trials have shown that cardiac stents are no more effective than drugs or lifestyle changes in preventing heart attacks or death.
That matters: a single percentage-point improvement in management scores correlated to a 6% fall in the death rate from heart attacks within 30 days.
Sadr's supposed arch-foe, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who leads al-Qaida in Iraq and whose operational commanders are in Iran, responded to his death by calling for attacks against Israel.
But those results had not been announced as the studies' primary goal ahead of time, and are generally considered "softer, " or less reliable, than the combined measure of heart attacks and death.
Researchers said giving patients the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor immediately -- regardless of their cholesterol levels -- could reduce the risk of death, new heart attacks and other bad outcomes by 16 percent.
After controlling for various factors, researchers found that the death rate from heart attacks for patients treated at hospitals facing large Medicare payment cuts jumped when compared to hospitals where reimbursement reductions were lower.
The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Air pollution causes heart attacks and death.
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The fatal beating and gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving New Delhi bus sparked outrage and spurred the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women, including the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim's death.
The confirmed death toll in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center stands at 233, with 170 of those victims identified.
AtheroGenics' future will likely depend on how strongly the data show that AGI-1067 reduces heart attacks, strokes and death.
Although Actos significantly reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and death by 16%, that was not the primary aim of ProACTIVE study.
Patients received either Arcoxia or diclofenac, and there was no difference in the number of heart attacks, strokes or death, or major stomach bleeding.
If the AGI-1067 study results are convincing, it could still eventually become the first truly new medicine introduced in a decade to reduce heart attacks, stroke and death.
Officials said the policeman was investigating numerous sectarian attacks and had recently received death threats.
She survived with minor injuries, he said, but rumors of her death had inflamed mobs who launched the attacks Tuesday.
As revealed last month, the AtheroGenics study showed no benefit from the drug in heart patients based on its main goal, which included stent procedures, chest pain, heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular death.
GlaxoSmithKline 's Avandia was the best-selling diabetes drug in the world until Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic published an analysis of clinical trial data that showed a heightened risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular death for patients on the drug.
Manson and some of his followers were convicted of the attacks on Tate and sentenced to death.
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in patients with diabetes.
Torcetrapib was supposed to prevent heart attacks but instead increased the risk of death in a 15, 000-patient trial.
These vulnerable groups are disproportionately represented in public housing, they point out, and may be at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, respiratory infections, heart attacks, and cancer.
The U.S. death toll since the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered the war has risen to more than 1, 850, including 82 this year, according to the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Central Command.
They have captured Abd al-Rashim al-Nashiri, al-Qaeda's mastermind for attacks at sea, and are seeking the death penalty for him.
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