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...appears to be holding up well so far. Since suffering a mild heart attack in November, Cheney has been working out for half an hour every morning on a treadmill and an elliptical trainer--one part cross-country ski machine, one part stair climber. The Veep's cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, says Cheney is "doing great, doing all the right things, looking great." That means sacrifice. Cheney, an able chef who is known for preparing grilled meats, beef stew and spaghetti--and for tucking into roast beef sandwiches, ribs and bratwurst on the campaign trail--seems to have trimmed...
...doctors who attended Cheney at the hospital. Alan Wasserman, president of the hospital's medical faculty associates, mentioned that Cheney's second blood test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose he was just passing on an innocuous test result. What he was actually offering was medical jargon that signifies a mild heart attack. Emphasis on mild--Cheney's episode qualified as a heart attack only under a stringent new definition adopted by the American Heart Association about...
...only after last week's emergency that Cheney's doctors finally made public a crucial measure of his coronary performance, the "ejection fraction," which indicates the heart's pumping power. A healthy heart registers within the 50% to 70% range. Cheney's is a serviceable 40%. His cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called that a sign of moderate impairment. Cheney's doctors also announced that for 30 days Cheney will take a blood thinner, Plavix, to prevent blood clots from forming around the stent before it can be covered by the growth of new tissue...
...name PinkBull.com you will find out that pink refers to the feminine side and bull to the financial markets in general. Duh! One of the "experts" on Oxygen Media's ka-ching.com is a novice investor who encourages women to "come learn with me." Would you go to a cardiologist who advertises her ignorance? At ivillagemoneylife.com an ad for a $300 camcorder ran on the same page as an article titled "Deep in Debt." Mixed message, perhaps...
...cholesterol, is a wee bit high, and their HDL, or "good" cholesterol, is a tad low. Or maybe they have diabetes, which commonly leads to cardiovascular disease, but don't yet show the effects. "I'm not recommending putting [statins] in the drinking water," says Dr. Antonio Gotto, a cardiologist and dean of Weill-Cornell School of Medicine in New York City. "But some 6 million to 7 million more people could benefit from their...