Word: angina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When lasers were first used for the treatment in the mid-'80s, researchers believed the channels remained open. Apparently not. It is now thought that the drilling provokes new blood-vessel growth where the laser burns a hole. (Others suggest the angina may be eased simply because the laser numbs pain-sensing nerves of the heart.) Scar tissue from the laser holes seems minimal...
...Hismanal (an allergy drug) and Nizoral (an anti-fungal medication) in that bag? Together they can trigger fatal cardiac spasms. Taking a little Viagra to boost your love life? Make sure you're not also on nitroglycerin for angina. In the past two months, that combination has killed four men, including one who, the Food and Drug Administration revealed last week, complained of chest pains after having sex and was given nitroglycerin in the ambulance. Now the FDA is trying to figure out if other drugs, like the prostate medication Hytrin, don't mix with Viagra...
Until last week, I didn't worry much about heart disease. Although heart attacks, angina and cardiac arrest can strike without warning, the odds are in my favor: I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, my blood pressure is good, I eat a low-fat diet, and I get plenty of exercise. While my grandfather had a heart attack at 60, he lived to be 86. And my father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh...
Even though Wei suffered an angina attack the day before his speech and had been hospitalized in Canada, he stood before the glowing lights for one-and-a-half hours...
...released from prison for what Chinese officials say were medical reasons, suffered an angina attack on Tuesday and was hospitalized in Canada for heart tests before making his one-and-a-half hour public appearance at Harvard...