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...This is the fundamental problem in the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and strokes, according to Harvard Medical School professor Paul Ridker, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is the story of the “45-year-old woman or man who goes out running and doesn’t come home because he or she drops dead,” Ridker said...
...Ridker started studying a new predictor of heart disease, inflammation in the blood, and was able to demonstrate that individuals with this marker were at a higher risk for heart disease. Prior to this, arteriosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries, had been the principal measure in diagnosing cardiovascular disease...
...Steve Nissen, the chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, believes that they might have...
...placebo group, 251 individuals experienced cardiovascular events over the two-year period as opposed to 142 in the group being treated with statins...
There has been an overall decrease of about 35 to 40 percent in cardiovascular fatalities in Massachusetts since 1999. Taking into account factors such as flu outbreaks, air pollution, and seasonal differentiation in health, scientists found that a reduction in secondhand smoke was the single greatest factor in the drop in deaths from heart disease...