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COCAINE The coke party started late for most boomers--not until the 1980s--but when it hit, it hit hard. Even cocaine apologists admit that the drug is dangerously addictive and sometimes lethal. Coke-triggered strokes and heart attacks--both of which can occur in people with no known cardiovascular disease--are the real deal, caused by the sudden elevation of blood pressure and spasms of vessels. "The damage can be done suddenly and acutely," says Raicht, "or slowly and chronically...
...least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, consume fish once or twice a week and cut down on the amount of trans and saturated fat in your diet. The effects appear to be cumulative. A study published in August found that folks with three or more major cardiovascular risk factors?for example, hypertension, diabetes and current smoking?were more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as well...
...cardiovascular fitness so important to cognitive health? Researchers used to think it was all about making sure that plenty of oxygen-rich blood made it to the brain. Now they are starting to suspect there may be more to it. In laboratory animals, at least, exercise also seems to stimulate the body's production of certain molecules called growth factors, which help nerves stay healthy and keep functioning. "We don't understand a lot about why this happens," says Arthur Kramer, a researcher at the University of Illinois who uses brain scans to study the effects of exercise...
...healthy cardiovascular system may even, to some extent, compensate for tiny defects in the brain. Doctors have long known that suffering one or more strokes, which interrupt the flow of blood to the brain, increases the likelihood of dementia. They assumed that Alzheimer's disease was a completely unrelated problem. In fact, a long-running study of a group of nuns who agreed to donate their brains when they died has found that isn't necessarily the case. About a third of the nuns whose brains at autopsy showed clear signs of the plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer...
...major question raised by such a comparatively high-stakes trial is, Why use such high-risk patients? The last thing people who are already in precarious cardiovascular health need-or so it would seem-is to begin taking a drug that could endanger them even further. Pfizer - not to mention the patients themselves-is apparently banking on the belief that Celebrex simply isn?t that risky, and that any slight dangers are outweighed by the benefits. ?Pfizer is fulfilling the commitment it made over a year ago to study Celebrex in this patient population," says Pfizer spokesman Bryant Haskins. When...