Word: cardiovascular
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...FOUR Americans now living will eventually contract cancer, which ranks a close second behind cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death today. In 1978 alone, he estimated number of deaths due the cancer was five times higher than all American military deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. The government and the private sector pour billions of dollars yearly into a nationwide attempt to conquer this 20th century plague. Unfortunately: much of this well-intentioned money has been mishandled...
...walks and carries himself indicates he is not physically agile. Disappearances from public life in the past suggest some bad health, probably cardiovascular trouble. Compared with Leonid Brezhnev in his final years, Andropov seems alert and durable. But those few Americans who have seen him face to face (Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Shultz are two of only a handful) report that he seems more fragile than most men his age. Shultz noted that Andropov acted like "a man who had been in charge." Still, analysts are not yet convinced he has full control in the Kremlin...
...Hooked American smokers, fearful of tobacco's health hazards, can at least turn to safer "low tar" cigarettes. Instead of defiantly boasting "I'd rather fight than switch," health-conscious smokes can mumble, "Well, I guess I'd rather switch than wait to see which gets me first--the cardiovascular disease or the lung cancer." But low tar cigarettes cost firms like Philip Morris much more to produce than the high-tar variety. As a result, the tobacco sold abroad contains much higher tar levels than domestic cigarettes...
...chymopapain does have one drawback. Injection of the chemical can trigger a potentially fatal response known as anaphylactic shock. The reaction, which cannot be predicted in an individual, can lead to the collapse of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The FDA points out, however, that in the new clinical trials with more than 1,400 patients, anaphylaxis occurred in only 1% of cases, and of these just two patients died. The mortality rate of .14% for chymopapain is about the same as that for lumbar disc surgery. Still, surgeons are cautioning patients that chymopapain is a last-ditch therapy short...
...that happens, the effect on cardiovascular research will be "devastating," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology. The cost of purchasing and preparing pound dogs is roughly $50 a piece, he said adding that other sources might cost as much as 10 times more. That increase would either force the University to devote more experimental projects...