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Pereira said there are several ways dairy may protect against insulin resistance, obesity and cardiovascular disease...
...cause of death was complications from the treatment of prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease...
...colleagues discovered it by measuring thromboxane levels in the urine of more than 5,500 regular aspirin users. "It became clear that the aspirin was not affecting everyone equally," Yusuf said. The difference was significant. Patients who had high levels of thromboxane in their urine had a risk of cardiovascular-related death that was 3 1/2 times as great as those with low levels...
...learn more about these deadly deposits and how they are changing the conventional wisdom on what causes heart attacks, I talked to one of the leading researchers in this field: Dr. Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Libby and his colleagues compare the cross section of an artery to a doughnut with a hole--where the doughnut is the arterial wall and the hole is the space where blood flows. "In the past, we have studied just the hole," he says. So big plaques that appeared on the verge of plugging...
...coverage but not enough--belonging to plans that offer not much more than the basics. For them, a little insurance can be almost as bad as none at all. "Sometimes we tell people simply to stop working and spend all their money," says Mehmet Oz, the director of the Cardiovascular Assist Device Program at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and a technical adviser for John Q. "Then at least they qualify for Medicaid...