Felled by a massive heart attack in 1986, he was an early heart transplant recipient who managed to live another five years with his new heart.
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Translation: I had inherited two bad copies of the genetic misfire, so my risk of an early heart attack--a myocardial infarction--is 70% greater than for the general population.
In May two rival research groups discovered a genetic variant--make that a flaw--on chromosome 9 that may boost the risk of early heart attack by as much as 70%.
The idea got a boost when University of Pittsburgh cardiologist Arthur Feldman found that mice engineered to produce high levels of TNF died early of heart failure.
It took decades to translate early findings for heart risk factors into lifesaving cholesterol drugs.
From that perspective the swings in both energy prices and interest rates during the 1970s and early 1980s was heart-stopping for drillers.
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Then when a randomized trial showed that hormonal replacement therapy actually raised the early risk of heart attack, women were understandably upset.
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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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On Jan. 15, Pharmacia announced an alliance with Reykjavik, Iceland-based DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) to find genes that predispose people to progress from early forms of heart disease to later ones.
Dr. Kaul is an internationally recognized heart researcher renowned for developing microbubble-based myocardial contrast echocardiography for the early detection of coronary heart disease.
Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said he expected the plan to outline how the Welsh government would tackle early prevention and care of heart disease.
Early deaths from coronary heart disease among Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans are around 50% higher than the UK average.
The rationale behind the new treatment is that the brain is more resilient than previously believed during the early period after the heart goes down.
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With the implementation of this law, our nation's kids will be less likely to grow up with early risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
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So the use of the device changed the cause of death but not the overall number of deaths in this early period after a heart attack.
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Lay, 64, died early Wednesday morning of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colo.
Statistical trends show that the majority of them are already well on the way to heart disease and early onset diabetes.
Concur Technologies, which makes expense-management applications, began its transition to the cloud in early 1999, in the heart of the dotcom boom.
Pastor Rick took this important point to heart at an early age.
With early diagnosis many people with heart failure are able to control their condition and live longer and fuller lives with the right combination of drugs, lifestyle and support.
As new early-detection techniques become affordable for the wealthy directly, it becomes cheaper for them to detect heart, stroke and cancer early than to pay for expensive treatment later.
Few people outside of medicine have heard of Lillehei, and few remember the sweaty-palmed suspense of open-heart surgery's early years.
Few people outside of medicine have heard of Lillehei, and few remember the sweaty-palmed suspense of open heart surgery's early years.
The neurophysiologist, who is based at Manchester Royal Infirmary, has developed an electrocardiogram system used in heart monitoring to spot early signs of the disease.
But Pfizer said in a press release Saturday night that it had to stop a 15, 000-patient study meant to show that torcetrapib saves lives and prevents heart attacks three years early.
These children can have heart attacks or strokes as early as age 5.
According to a 1996 study in the American Journal of Cardiology, many people shovel in the early morning, when the risk for heart attacks is higher.
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You may remember Volcker as the Fed chief in the early 1980s who drove a stake through the heart of inflation.
The study found that treating patients who had mild heart attacks with angioplasties and stents early on was no more effective than just initially giving patients anticlotting drugs.
Leading a key functional area like sales for an early stage company is not for the faint of heart.
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