No political movement driving funds to reduce the double dose of heart-related deaths among men.
The original transplant operation took place because Hannah had cardiomyopathy, which made her heart double in size and risk giving out within a year.
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Diadexus drew headlines last month when it helped identify what may be a new risk factor in heart disease: a little-known protein produced by the body that can double the risk of heart attacks.
But they did find that people with anxiety had more than double the risk of heart disease and two-and-a-half times the risk of suffering a heart attack.
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Then a study confirmed what the researchers had suspected: Among people taking the drug for more than 18 months, Vioxx appeared to double the risk of heart attacks.
Bextra is an anti-inflammatory medicine that works by the same mechanism as Vioxx, the Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) pill that was pulled from the market after it was found to double the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
But just two years later cardiologists warned of a potential problem: Merck's own 8, 000-person study, the same one that showed Vioxx reduced ulcer complications, also found that patients on the drug had more than double the risk of heart problems of those on another painkiller, naproxen (the ingredient in over-the-counter Aleve).
DeCode researchers spent four years analyzing the DNA of the Arnasons and thousands of other Icelandic heart patients, unearthing a couple of key suspects:two gene variants, previously thought to be involved in asthma, that nearly double the risk of heart attack by boosting levels of a molecule that promotes inflammation of the artery walls.
He suffers from a degenerative bone disorder in his hip and has had surgery for prostate cancer, a quadruple heart bypass and a double knee replacement.
An onslaught ensued, with Giggs and Rooney at the heart of it, but somehow United could not double their advantage.
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