Word: cardiac
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...HEART DRUG JUST FOR BLACKS The FDA may decide this week to approve BiDil, a heart-failure drug aimed at African Americans. A one-year study of 1,050 black heart patients found that those taking the pill, which pairs two generic cardiac drugs, had a 43% lower death rate than patients who didn't take the drug. If approved, BiDil would be the first race-specific drug...
...than eight years ago, when she weighed an even more prodigious 350 lbs. She credits her workouts there not only with getting her weight down but also with some other impressive numbers. Her total cholesterol has dropped from 220 to 180, her blood pressure is good, and a recent cardiac-stress test showed that her heart is healthy. She now takes four or five fitness classes a week and teaches two or three herself. "Before I started exercising, I couldn't walk 10 yards without huffing and puffing," she says. "My mother's 80-year-old friends with bad knees...
...oise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogotá, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema and cardiac weakness brought on by the altitude; she was flown home to France and remains under sedation in improving condition...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older. What immediately grabbed everyone's attention in the J.A.M.A. study was the discovery that vitamin E slightly increased the risk of heart failure. That's a first. There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only...
...vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older...