Note the important point there: heart attack rates are falling everywhere, have been for years.
They say prasugrel does better even if a stricter definition of heart attacks is used, and note that some patients died from both bleeding and a cardiovascular event (a bleeding stroke, for instance.) Overall, there were 188 deaths in the prasugrel group and 197 in the Plavix group.
My fellow visitors weren't as prepared, hastily purchasing a few postcards from our guide and scribbling a quick note to whoever's address they had memorised by heart.
And Europe's shareholders will note that standing up to managers that do not have their interests at heart is no longer such a forlorn enterprise.
The study does not identify the specific causes of these job-related attacks or whether firefighters have an overall greater risk of dying from heart problems than the rest of the population, but does note the unique hazards of the profession.
Another grim note: AstraZeneca on Monday canceled its partnership with biotech AtheroGenics to develop a promising heart pill.
But skeptics note that Celebrex, at least at a high dose, did show a risk to the heart.
Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.
But many nutritionists are quick to note that diets high in certain fats - and high in cholesterol - are believed to drive up the risks of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
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