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Perils of living in poverty also take their toll. The sharing of contaminated needles among drug users speeds the spread of AIDS. Alcoholism, stress and poor diet help fuel increases in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and liver failure. A study in Washington found that 50% of black men living in public housing suffer from hypertension, in contrast to 20% of all black men in the city. And 25% of the projects' women suffer from diabetes, against 7% in Washington as a whole...
...Things are so bad, some have said, they couldn't even get a man to be NIH director," jokes Bernadine Healy, a cardiovascular researcher. This week Healy, 46, makes her debut before Congress as the new NIH director, the first woman to hold that job. To many it appears that George Bush may finally have summoned just the right doctor. In addition to work in medical and research areas, Healy has had a lengthy career in science policy. She has served on several federal science-advisory committees and, most recently, as chief of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Research Institute...
According to Kirby--who heads the cardiovascular laboratory at the SPH--arrhythmia sometimes results from stress. How the abnormal response of the heart is started is not understood by researchers yet, she said...
...research is funded by the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation, a non-profit private organization founded by Bernard Lown, professor of cardiology in nutrition at the SPH, said Arlene Fortunato, director of the foundation...
...period, of 623 women, 30 to 49, who took phenacetin daily for at least a year with those of 621 women who used the drug less often or not at all. The researchers found that women who took phenacetin regularly had an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease; they were also more likely to die from urologic or kidney disease. Aspirin posed no such risks...