Another study of 2, 200 individuals found that routinely checking patients' arteries with angiograms, then fixing blockages when necessary with bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty, could reduce those events by 18 percent.

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Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats, that is) to be either indifferent to how such protection reduces choice and raises prices, or to support protectionism because they fear contaminated and disease-bearing foreign products, and the vulnerability of Japan to blockages of agricultural product imports.

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