Often the depth of their scars is not even close to the depth of heart pain that came with those scars.
To fall into the group with cardiovascular disease you need to have symptoms such as angina (heart pain), and clogged arteries diagnosed following tests.
Weldon launched the first drug-coated stent, Cypher, for angina, a kind of heart pain, and then had so much trouble competing with Abbott and other rivals that it eventually closed the division.
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Instead, new medical devices allow valves to be fixed or replaced with tiny catheters that are snaked up from the groin, similar to the way stents are implanted in the heart to open clogged arteries when people have heart attacks or pain from a lack of good circulation in the heart muscle.
"Today brings to an end more than 11 years of heart ache and pain for the relatives of Geraldine, " he said.
At times, it may be difficult to distinguish pericardial pain from the pain that occurs with a heart attack.
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.
It will enroll 10, 000 people who already have heart trouble, such as past heart attacks or chest pain.
The use of lovastatin also reduced the first incidence of heart attack or chest pain by 37 percent.
This is a medicine to prevent heart attacks and strokes in patients who suffer acute coronary syndrome, the condition that occurs after a heart attack or serious heart-related chest pain.
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The highest doses of each drug available at the time of the study were used, and only the sickest patients--those who had just had heart attacks or chest pain--were used in the trial.
In this week's issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, " FitzGerald has published experiments showing that knocking out a gene in mice might decrease the risk of heart attacks while inhibiting pain.
For instance, cholesterol drugs are so good at preventing second heart attacks that giving them to people who have had heart attacks or persistent chest pain might save money.
According to a posting on the Journal's Web site, editors at the world's top medical journal found by examining a computer diskette that relevant data about Vioxx's risk to the heart compared with an older pain drug, naproxen, were deleted two days before the paper was initially submitted to the Journal.
Stents are used in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into a heart artery via a catheter and used to reopen it, alleviating chest pain, allowing patients to walk and treating heart attacks.
Later that year, Clinton underwent heart bypass surgery after experiencing chest pain and shortness of breath.
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"It is with pain in our heart, but for the bank this is an inevitable decision, " said Bert Bruggink of Rabobank's managing board.
"Yet despite being the UK's single biggest killer, the first sign someone has heart disease is often severe chest pain or sudden death".
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Angioplasty was invented in the 1970s as a way to clear clogged arteries and relieve chest pain or treat heart attacks without opening a patients' chest.
The drug is approved to treat chest pain due to heart problems, but a big study failed to prove Ranexa can prevent heart attacks or extend lives.
"I say farewell with pain in my heart, but with the same hope that I came to this country with to make sure my wife and my son have a better future, " he said.
The effort comes amid growing concern about the risk of brain injuries in football, but the scope extends well beyond concussions to bone and joint injury, heart disease, depression and chronic pain that affect many players long after their careers are over.
Both Stein and Steven Nissen, interim chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, say they are worried that the drug will be pushed for patients who have had recent heart attacks and suffer from chest pain, where the data back a higher-powered drug.
"With pain in my heart, we have to admit that we return to the stage of war that nobody wants, " Farc chief negotiator Ivan Marquez told reporters before going into a new session of talks with Colombian government representatives in the Cuban capital, Havana.
When cardiac CT angiography is being used appropriately -- meaning, for example, in people with chest pain suggesting blocked heart arteries, rather than as a screening test for people with no symptoms of heart disease -- the benefits far outweigh the risk of the radiation, according to Einstein and Hausleiter.
The fat cells release biochemicals that lead to inflammation, which could lead to heart attacks, strokes and joint and muscle pain.
But even those with milder symptoms will know the misery of pelvic pain and have poignant, heart-breaking stories of how endometriosis has devastated their health, their relationships and their lives.
As the funeral drew to a close, a grieving grandmother sang a last lament - an outpouring of personal pain that lies at the heart of a brutal political conflict.
Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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