Three studies of post-menopausal women show low- fat diets don't prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer.
Federal guidelines now recommend the drugs for up to 24 million more Americans who don't have heart disease but risk getting it in the future.
Heart transplants are the last resort for end-stage heart disease, but there aren't enough organs to go around.
Half of all heart disease patients don't even have high cholesterol, a fact that confounds the layman's myth that heart attacks are caused by cholesterol clogging up the body's plumbing like grease in pipes.
Experts have a number of hypotheses as to why anxiety and heart disease may be linked, though the new research can't confirm that anxiety -- not some other factor -- is the cause of heart disease and heart attacks in the study.
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There is hardly a form of congenital heart disease that its surgeons can't treat effectively.
The evaluations will detail the risks for developing conditions from diabetes to heart disease if the obese don't make lifestyle changes.
Both had been otherwise healthy and were eager let other women with heart disease know "they weren't alone, " Ms. Gullickson says.
Shares slipped slightly, as investors were disappointed that there wasn't more visibility for new medicines for heart disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in the U.S. Meanwhile, in Whitehouse Station, N.
The committee members say they aren't sure why fish reduces the risk of heart disease.
Another persistent criticism is that low-carb diets increase the risk of heart disease, although defenders argue the science doesn't support this.
The agency's complaint says that some of POM's studies did not show heart disease benefits and that the prostate cancer study wasn't conducted in a standard, scientifically rigorous manner.
DeCode's data "doesn't come close" to proving that Flap is involved in heart disease, says Yale University geneticist Richard Lifton.
For diseases like diabetes and heart disease, which have many causes beyond genes, genome sequencing isn't able to predict who will get sick.
The medical examiner didn't find any evidence of "natural disease except for a slightly enlarged heart, " nor did toxicology tests reveal signs of drugs or alcohol.
In healthy women the drugs don't appear to save lives at all, and the evidence they prevent heart disease is weak: Statin takers have only a slightly better chance of avoiding heart disease than women on a placebo, according to a recent analysis.
There are still many diseases we don't have an answer to, though I do have some good ideas about cancer and heart disease.
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As far as we can tell, in general, antidepressants don't increase the risk for any of the major modern killers (i.e. heart disease, cancer, dementia).
If you have established heart disease you should take aspirin (unless there are contraindications) and if you don't fall into that category, then you should not.
And although she currently isn't on any heart medication, she regularly pushes her doctor to check thoroughly for signs of developing heart disease.
There aren't enough stem cells in an umbilical cord to serve as a treatment for a disease like cancer or heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, so it's important that you don't ignore these symptoms, regardless of how subtle they are.
They say consuming 250 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids a day -- t he equivilant of 6 ounces a week of wild salmon or other oily fish -- could prevent heart disease.
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