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...gender-specific analysis showed that women who took 20 mg of Crestor daily for an average of 1.9 years had a 46% reduction in cardiovascular events - similar to the 42% reduction in men - compared with the placebo group. "I said once we had the large numbers of women, we'd see benefit. Jupiter now provides that evidence," says Grundy...
...data come from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial, a three-part federal study launched a decade ago to investigate whether the aggressive lowering of those key risk factors - blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure - would reduce heart risks in diabetes and prediabetes patients. Two years ago, the blood-sugar arm of the study was terminated, when people who drastically reduced glucose levels ended up having a higher overall mortality rate than those not receiving such intensive therapy. See how to prevent illness...
...prostate cancer, particularly those who had advanced disease, were also at a slightly higher risk of dying from a heart attack or another cardiovascular event within the first year. The risk was highest during the first month after diagnosis. (See "The Year in Health...
...current study looked only at major causes of mortality, which the researchers grouped together as cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease or other. In all weight categories, the leading causes of death were cardiovascular disease and cancer. The lowest risk of death from either cause occurred in overweight adults. (See a guide to preventing illness...
...womb could affect your health not only when you were a fetus but well into adulthood. In 1986, for example, the Lancet published the first of two groundbreaking papers showing that if a pregnant woman ate poorly, her child would be at significantly higher than average risk for cardiovascular disease as an adult. Bygren wondered whether that effect could start even before pregnancy: Could parents' experiences early in their lives somehow change the traits they passed to their offspring? (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...