Unlike a lot of women, they probably don't have heart-to-heart chats with everyone from their best friend to the bus driver, and they often limit hugs and physical affection to their immediate family.
Either the imaging technique doesn't predict whether drugs prevent heart attacks and strokes, or Zetia isn't going to prevent heart attacks and strokes, says Prediman K. Shah, a researcher who studies cholesterol at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
It isn't desirable to cause a heart attack in the name of trying to prevent one.
But the holiday season isn't good for heart health to begin with.
But while grilling CEOs may make for good political theater, it doesn't get to the heart of the problem: America's outdated and dysfunctional corporate tax code.
Vytorin critics said the problem was that a new component in the drug, the chemical ezetimibe, lowered cholesterol but hadn't been proven to prevent heart attacks or deaths.
Like many other purpose-built administrative capitals - Brazil's Brasilia, Burma's Naypyidaw, Pakistan's Islamabad - its high-design layout hasn't managed to capture the heart and soul of the country it rules.
For years, surgeons had the technical tools to make simple repairs on the heart, but they couldn't help patients until the development of the heart-lung machine made it possible to preserve the body for more than a few minutes without a heartbeat.
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And Topol's analysis seems to show that even if Merck wasn't aware of the possible risks to the heart posed by Vioxx, perhaps it should have been.
Now, if health care is near and dear to her heart, wouldn't it be the right choice or a good choice to stay in the Senate and work on the health care issue that way?
However, fresh capillary formation isn't enough to help a failing heart.
Will.i.am, famous for hits including Where Is The Love and Don't Phunk With My Heart, responded to Perez Hilton's claims in his own video posted online.
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Rangers coach John Tortorella certainly wasn't going to wait any longer to get Staal right back into the heart of the action.
In the same way that you shouldn't wait until you have a heart attack to engage in lifestyle and medication interventions, Alzheimer's should be diagnosed much earlier, so that precautions can be taken, said Maria Carrillo, senior director of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association.
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Heart transplants are the last resort for end-stage heart disease, but there aren't enough organs to go around.
The musician doesn't hold just his family close to his heart, but his faith, as well.
While more patients are surviving such events, about two-thirds don't make complete recoveries and are vulnerable to heart failure.
Watson says a heart doesn't respond well to being out of the body for more than three or four hours.
But in January results from an artery-imaging study showed that adding Zetia to Zocor didn't slow heart-attack-causing atherosclerosis in patients with a genetic disorder that causes high cholesterol.
Of course, the Fed didn't decide to provide the brokerage firms with funding out of the goodness of its heart, but instead to insure the bond markets would continue to function.
That drug was linked in several analyses of published data to an increase in the risk of heart attacks, but big studies didn't provide a clear answer as to whether the risk was real.
The troubles "cut to the heart of everything Indiana people like to think about themselves: Don't cheat and graduate kids, " said Fred Glass, Indiana's third-year athletic director.
It's not for kids, and your heart and mind aren't ready to see something like this.
"I wouldn't advise the faint of heart or faint of pocketbook to enter this business, " warns Rapp.
Vollmer had the symptoms of long Q-T Syndrome, a condition that often leads to heart arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest.
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That difference isn't statistically significant, but many will argue that there just aren't enough patients who have had heart attacks and strokes to draw a conclusion.
"When it takes that long, you draw your inspiration from two things: the millions you can help and the one you couldn't, " he intones to the strains of heart-yanking music.
And with a slow scanner, we wouldn't be able to freeze the motion of the heart and all we'd get is blurry images, like a car racing by on a photograph.
It took years before a big study was launched to prove Zetia adds heart-attack-preventing effectiveness to Zocor--and it won't be done until 2012.
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