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...bigger the drop in cholesterol, the lower the incidence of both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks. When the cholesterol level was reduced by 25%, the risk of heart disease was cut by 50%. The group on medication also had 20% fewer episodes of angina and 21% fewer coronary-bypass operations to restore the free flow of blood to the heart...
...rates are not set speedily, or if they turn out to be fixed too high, large corporate phone users will be encouraged to set up their own communications systems, bypassing local phone companies and depriving them of revenues. That poses a severe threat to the typical user's phone bill. If too much revenue is lost because of defecting Big Business customers, the operating companies will be forced to raise bills to consumers. Says Levy: "Our job is to make sure that the rates we have in effect are economic, so as to minimize uneconomic bypass...
HOSPITALIZED. Isaac Asimov, 63, sci-fi and nonfiction word factory, with 286 books to his credit and 14 more at his publishers; resting comfortably after triple-bypass heart surgery; in New York City...
...ultimate result is that five years after surgery about half of all bypass patients are no better off than they were before, and many are candidates for a second bypass. "That second operation may be difficult and risky because the tissues are so damaged and scarred," explains noted Harvard Cardiologist Eugene Braunwald, chief of medicine at both Beth Israel Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. To avoid a second operation, Braunwald and a growing number of his colleagues believe that the first bypass should be put off as long as possible by controlling symptoms like angina...
There are other alternatives to the bypass. In the mid-1970s, Swiss Cardiologist Andreas Gruntzig developed an ingenious method of unclogging arteries using a small balloon. In angioplasty, now performed on about 12,000 patients a year, a narrow tube, or catheter, is threaded into the diseased artery until it reaches the clogged area. At that point a tiny balloon at the tip of the catheter is repeatedly inflated so that it flattens the deposits against the arterial wall and widens the channel...