Word: angina
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...stop there? Stamler argues that it might be possible to supercharge the NO content in blood and use it as a treatment for everything from heart disease to angina to diabetes. "We all want to open up blood vessels, and blood knows how to do that," he says. "The opportunities to manipulate the system to do even better are now available." And that would truly make giving blood the gift of life...
...heart attacks. Early studies even hint that statins may also work on the plaques and tangles that cause Alzheimer's disease. But all drugs have their limits. An analysis of 12 trials found that patients who had taken statins within two weeks of having a heart attack or angina did not reduce their risk of dying or having another heart attack or stroke in the following four months...
...Lipitor and Pravachol--funded by Pravachol's maker--produced a surprise slam-dunk for Lipitor. After all, the trial of more than 4,000 patients showed that those who started taking Lipitor instead of Pravachol within a week or so after being hospitalized for a heart attack or unstable angina had a 16% lower rate of getting worse--dying, suffering a subsequent heart attack or stroke, or requiring bypass surgery. But the seemingly obvious conclusion is not necessarily the right one. Here...
...heartbeat? The idea behind this wacky-sounding treatment, known as enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), is to decrease the demand on an ailing heart by helping it push blood through the body. But perhaps the oddest thing about EECP is that it works amazingly well to relieve chest pain, or angina, in many patients...
First approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1995, EECP is most often used in folks with stable angina--the kind that often lasts five minutes or less, is brought on by physical exertion and is usually relieved by drugs like nitroglycerin. (Unstable angina tends to be severe, occurs suddenly or unexpectedly, often while a person is at rest, and requires immediate attention as it may be a sign of a heart attack.) Unfortunately, stable angina isn't always easily controlled with medications, and some people just aren't good candidates for angioplasty or surgery. That's where EECP...