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People with diabetes are twice as likely as nondiabetics to suffer a heart attack - most diabetes patients die of heart disease - and for years, physicians have used aggressive drug treatments to lower that risk. To that end, the goal has commonly been to lower blood sugar or control blood-sugar spikes after eating, lower triglycerides and reduce blood pressure in diabetes patients to levels closer to those of healthy, nondiabetic individuals. By using medication to treat these factors, which are linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke in other patients, doctors assumed they would also be reducing...
...statin and fibrate study, about 5,500 patients with diabetes and at least one other health problem were given cholesterol-lowering statins; half were also given a triglyceride-lowering fibrate. There was no difference in heart-attack and stroke rates between the groups. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...than diabetes, that put them at high risk for heart disease, notes Dr. Om Ganda, director of the lipid clinic at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. That means the trial was not truly a primary-prevention study designed to test whether aggressive drug treatment could prevent a first heart attack in newly diagnosed diabetes patients...
...violent Mexican border city of Juárez on the afternoon of March 13 were themselves horrifying enough. Jorge Alberto Salcido, 37, a Mexican citizen whose wife works for the U.S. consulate, was killed at the wheel of his Honda; his two young children were wounded in the gun attack and were rushed to a hospital. Minutes later, say police, gunmen in another part of the city chased down the Toyota SUV driven by Lesley Enriquez, 25, who also worked for the consulate, and her husband Arthur Redelf, 30, both U.S. citizens who lived across the border in El Paso...
...Whatever bodily fluids may be involved, the Red Shirts insist that their message continues to be one of peaceful resistance. The movement's leaders have denied any involvement, however, in a grenade attack on an army base in Bangkok on Monday that wounded two soldiers. "We categorically deny any involvement and we hope the police catch the perpetrators,'' said Red Shirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong. Police have arrested two suspects for the attack. Protest organizers had planned to spread the blood at Government House in the evening, but then announced it would take place later in the afternoon as the donations...