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In the United States, 30 percent of angiograms find no blockages in the heart arteries, notes Dr. Kim Allan Williams, a professor of medicine and radiology at the University of Chicago.
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The abstract notes that one of the deaths was due to acute heart failure at the 10mg dose.
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"A large part of my heart still resides in the red clay of this place, " notes Robert Shipper.
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Eric Topol , the top cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, notes that previous studies suggest naproxen might have had a heart benefit.
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Doctors may feel the drug provides little extra benefit compared with an existing heart failure drug, spironolactone, for a much higher cost, notes Eric Topol, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Morgan analyst Chris Schott notes that drugs like Humira are known to cause worsening of congestive heart failure.
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Clyde Yancy, medical director of the heart and vascular institute at the Baylor College of Medicine, and another FDA panelist, notes that with drugs, so-called off-label use is often a scandal.
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Sleep patterns disrupted by shift work have been linked to heart disease, but this has also been linked to stress caused by unpleasant jobs, Prof Horne notes.
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Dr. Marion Moses, director of the Pesticide Education Center in San Francisco, California, notes that at least one commonly used class of pesticides, organophosphates, can adversely affect the heart -- and this effect is just the tip of the iceberg.
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He notes that Geodon sales never took off because it causes a change in the electrical rhythms of the heart.
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