Word: cardiovascular
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IPPNW founder Dr. Bernard Lown emphasizes that grassroots enthusiasm was critical in establishing the organization. Lown, professor of cardiology emeritus at the School of public Health and director of the Lown Cardiovascular Center, says the association could not have been created if medical students had not volunteered to help him 12 years...
...Further studies on HIF] would allow us to take new directions in attempts to find ways to treat hypertension," he says. Haupert is also hopeful that hypertension may be used as a model to study other diseases involving the cardiovascular system...
Around the office, he is known as one of the most dependable and unflappable correspondents in the bureau. Like Clinton, he is married to a successful lawyer -- Ann Olivarius, now president of the Sarnoff Endowment for Cardiovascular Science -- whom he met at Yale. Balancing the demands of his beat and the needs of his growing family (a third child is due in January) may be the real test of his diplomatic skills...
Coronary bypass operations for patients over 80 generally produce bills twice as high as those for younger people, says Robert Jones, professor of surgery at North Carolina's Duke University. Jones, who heads a federally financed project to establish guidelines for cardiovascular surgery, explains that people like the nonagenarian of Clinton's anecdote stay in the hospital longer than younger people because of age-related surgical complications and the lack of people to care for them when they go home. As a result, says Jones, the pressure to turn down such high-risk, expensive patients "will be more than subtle...
...APOE gene itself was studied for a long time because it's related to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease... but it was not thought to be involved in Alzheimer's," Haines said. "It's involved in the metabolism of lipids and cholesterol--that's the known role. We suspect it may have other functions not known at this time...