The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
So the use of the device changed the cause of death but not the overall number of deaths in this early period after a heart attack.
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Assigned with his brother Maurice to the Sonderkommando, Shlomo Venezia survived six months at the heart of the death machine set up by the Nazis to destroy the Jewish people.
In the face of the heart wrenching death toll, the U.S., the West and the rest of the world are feeling renewed pressure to take action.
The study of more than 120, 000 people suggested red meat increased the risk of death from cancer and heart problems.
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Two years later those who ate the Mediterranean diet had half the risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death compared with those who stayed on the regular low-fat diet, even though their cholesterol declined only a modest 14%.
The death of Morrison, who died of heart failure in a bath in Paris, effectively spelled the end for the band, although Chicago-born Manzarek took on singing duty.
Researchers at first planned to compare the rate of death, heart attacks and strokes in the two groups, but these were less frequent than anticipated.
Researchers said giving patients the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor immediately -- regardless of their cholesterol levels -- could reduce the risk of death, new heart attacks and other bad outcomes by 16 percent.
This pattern held when the researchers broke out the data by specific causes of death, including heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes, infections, and even injuries and accidents.
In a new analysis published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Steven Nissen and Eric Topol of the Cleveland Clinic write that Pargluva doubles the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
In the study researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found that even just eating 1 to 2 servings of fish a week reduced the risk of death from heart disease by 36 percent, and overall death by 17 percent.
There was absolutely no difference in the main aim of the study, a reduction in death and hospitalization for heart or kidney problems, between patients who got Natrecor and those who did not.
There was no effective maximum waiting time either for a GP appointment or for hospital treatment - although the hospital waiting lists stood at over 1.1 million and many patients were waiting more than 18 months even for the most urgent treatment, with rates of death from cancer and heart disease amongst the highest in Europe.
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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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Oviedo's sudden death in the heart of campaign season sent shock waves across Paraguay's political landscape less than three months before the presidential vote.
In 1971, Gert Boyle was advised to sell Columbia Sportswear after the death of her husband Neal to a heart attack the prior year.
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Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.
Paul Donovan, a spokesman for the company, emphasizes that although the company has found some evidence for clots, the drug-coated stents do not significantly increased the risk of heart attack or death.
She tried to tell herself that she had gone to the sisters hoping for nothing, with nothing in her heart but sadness at the death of their father, who had loved her.
The post-mortem examination gave cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart.
Her lies and peculiar behavior, meticulously creating an alibi to avoid suspicion within hours of Alexander's death, have been at the heart of the prosecution's case.
To my mind, the best argument supporting death tax repeal comes from an unusual source in the heart of the liberal U.S. northwest: T he Seattle Times.
It is supposed to be much more difficult to show a benefit in the "hard events"--heart attack, stroke and death--than in the broader swath of "extra" heart problems that AtheroGenics measured in its trial.
His wife, Margaret Marshall, the former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, confirmed his death from complications from heart and renal failure.
They found a 2.5 times higher risk of death from heart disease in the first five days of using a Z-Pak when compared to another common antibiotic or no antibiotics at all.
His passing is the second tragedy to hit Ulster sport following the sudden death of GAA star Cormac McAnallen with a rare heart viral infection less than a month ago.
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All of which may feel like life-and-death issues that go to the heart of our constitution and national identity.
Those debates were blown away when a 1994 study showed Merck's Zocor substantially lowered the death rate of heart patients in Scandinavia.
An official with the Inter-Services Intelligence said the ISI was concerned that the news could lead to further criticism of Pakistan in the U.S. for not doing more to clamp down on al Qaeda in the heart of Pakistan and overshadow the death of Mr. bin Laden.
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