There was every reason to expect that Tricor, a pill sold by Abbott Laboratories, would reduce heart attack or death from heart disease.
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.
In the study researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that even just eating 1 to 2 servings of fish a week reduced the risk of death from heart disease by 36 percent, and overall death by 17 percent.
"There was a 44 percent reduction in death, heart attack, and stroke among people taking Crestor, " says Nissen.
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They were also at modestly reduced risk of death from any cause, as well as death from heart failure.
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Primates held in captivity are at increased risk of death from heart-related disease.
Men who knocked back five or more drinks when they did indulge had a 30% greater risk for death via heart disease.
The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overall mortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.
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They said their findings, while not conclusive, suggested a long-term risk of death from heart disease is associated with the mother's genetic predisposition.
Which brings us to his father, a gifted musician and composer whose early death from heart disease left a profound mark on Mr. Kurzweil.
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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.
Since the 1960's, death from heart disease has been declining.
They found a 2.5 times higher risk of death from heart disease in the first five days of using a Z-Pak when compared to another common antibiotic or no antibiotics at all.
For example, a strong link between childhood obesity and death from heart disease decades later was recently found, and there is abundant evidence that obesity is the culprit of the shocking increase in diabetes in children.
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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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.
Those debates were blown away when a 1994 study showed Merck's Zocor substantially lowered the death rate of heart patients in Scandinavia.
The death rate from heart disease was triple what it is today.
Death from coronary heart disease also seems to correlate with apo E.
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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.
Oviedo's sudden death in the heart of campaign season sent shock waves across Paraguay's political landscape less than three months before the presidential vote.
Data on the death rates for heart surgery is already available.
This pattern held when the researchers broke out the data by specific causes of death, including heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes, infections, and even injuries and accidents.
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, after heart disease.
There had been pressure to release the information since the Bristol Royal Infirmary baby heart death scandal, when surgeons with higher than average death rates continued to operate on children.
The death rate from heart disease, although falling, remains higher in Wales than in England, although lower than in the north west and north east of England, areas with similar social-economic issues.
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.
Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.
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.
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