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...studying the 900 idea, but they have yet to come to any conclusions about its usefulness or safety. For now, it seems, patients would be wise to think carefully before dialing -- and get a stopwatch. At $3 a minute, or $180 an hour, the bill itself could trigger cardiac symptoms too grave for any phone doctor to resolve...
...that lowering cholesterol in childhood directly prevents heart disease in adulthood. Even if the thesis were proved, the benefits might be minimal. By one estimate, 100 to 200 boys (or 300 to 600 girls) would need to follow a cholesterol-lowering diet for 50 years to prevent one premature cardiac death. Says Dr. Thomas Newman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco: "These benefits are going to be so tiny that it seems unethical to do screening." Not to mention expensive. The NCEP estimates that a program to test 15 million kids will need...
Each year about 400,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac death. Kirby said most of these deaths are suspected of being caused by ventricular fibrillation, the most fatal form of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia...
...refuse this "scabloid." Our father, Joel Burstein, a lifelong newspaperman in New York using the name Joel Burton, worked at The News from 1966 until the management lockout began on October 25, 1990. On November 2, 1990, the eighth day of the lockout, he collapsed and died of a cardiac arrest at the Guild office in New York...
...recruiting women research subjects, given that women make up half the population -- and half the taxpayers underwriting federal research. Concern for the fetus is often exaggerated, they say. "There is a tendency to think of women as walking wombs," says the University of Wisconsin's Karlin. Most female cardiac patients, she notes, are not planning to get pregnant...