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...history of hypertension. For the duration of the study, participants recorded their nightly sleep habits in a sleep diary; their blood pressure was monitored all day and night, using an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, a small halter-like device that takes readings every 30 minutes 24 hours a day. Cardiovascular events including stroke, heart attack and sudden cardiac death were tracked among the participants...
...This is unprecedented," says Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic, who is familiar with the study but did not participate in it. "I have never seen a result of this magnitude reduction in risk." The results were significant enough to stop the study three years early...
...well-established risk factors, is an important marker of heart disease. But while it was clear that inflammation was a key player in disease, there was no real data to prove that reducing inflammation, as measured by lower levels of the CRP marker in the blood, could prevent future cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy patients...
...attacks suffered per year in the U.S., may be prevented by controlling inflammation. Indeed, nearly half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels, a strong indicator that factors other than cholesterol and atherosclerosis - such as inflammation - are involved. "This is a new way to prevent cardiovascular events in an entirely new population that we have been missing," says Weaver...
...without special notice by the author—who just glides over them—or by any of the characters, who all fail to notice the strange occurrences. The wife of “Bad Heart” brushes off her husband’s complaints of cardiovascular problems as a childish bid for attention. The main characters find themselves suppressed even in the domestic realm, as their wives make them feel ashamed, used, and inadequate. Developing complexes that make them shudder at the thought of having sex with their wives, they retreat into passivity...