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...stress test of the heart earlier this year showed McCain to have the cardiovascular health of a younger man. A colonoscopy earlier this year resulted in the removal of some non-cancerous polyps. An examination of his skin in February, which he repeats every few months, discovered on his leg a non-invasive form of skin cancer, called a squamous cell carcinoma, which was "destroyed" earlier this month using liquid nitrogen. It was the fifth incidence of skin cancer for McCain. Only one of those cancers, a 2000 invasive melanoma on his left temple, was considered seriously life threatening. That...
...person of Kennedy's age who suffers a seizure, says Blumenthal, "we can't rule out anything cardiovascular or cerebrovascular." That means that tests of the electrical activity of Kennedy's heart will be useful in isolating any potential abnormalities in his heart function, such as a slow heart rate or an irregular heartbeat, that could have contributed to the seizure. CAT scans and MRIs of the brain will also be needed to ensure that Kennedy's episode wasn't caused by a tumor or infection in the brain...
Applying the results to cardiovascular treatment, Baggish added: “The take-home message is that, just as not all heart disease is equal, not all exercise prescriptions are equal. This should start us thinking about whether we should tailor the type of exercise patients should do to their specific type of heart disease...
...lucky enough to be able to work with data from probably the largest study of cardiovascular-disease risk factors done in the U.S.: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Bogalusa is a community about 60 mi (100 km) northeast of New Orleans. This is a small town - maybe the population is about 20,000 - and the study was started in the early 1970s, primarily by Dr. Gerald Berenson. We examined all the children in this town for lipids, blood pressure, weight and height, skin-fold thicknesses, smoking, alcohol consumption - anything we thought might be related to heart disease in adulthood. Of those...
...terms of clinical complications of cardiovascular disease the cohort really hasn't aged enough for us to study that. I think the oldest subjects in the study now, who were examined as children, are about 45. Still, there have been probably at least a dozen studies that have been able to do this around the world. Many studies have been conducted in England, but in all honesty the results have been somewhat conflicting. Some studies found a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Some studies - but not all of them - have found an increased risk of mortality. I think, though...