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Perhaps most important has been the aggressive campaign waged by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association to detect and treat hypertension, a risk factor in heart attacks and strokes. "Decades ago, there were two schools of thought," says Dr. Robert Levy, director of the N.H.L.B.I. "One said that high blood pressure should be lowered, and the other said that it can be protective [that is, needed to supply more blood to organs like the brain]. Now we know that it's very important that we treat it." Nearly 35 million Americans...
...best way to do that is to detect the disease before it has grown desperate. Today physicians are refining their diagnostic techniques at a remarkable pace. A decade ago, they checked for heart disease by taking a patient's history, doing a physical examination and ordering chest X rays, electrocardiograms and angiograms. X-ray films and EKGs give general information about the heart's structure and electrical activity, respectively. Angiograms, special X-ray pictures made by injecting a radiopaque substance through a thin tube inserted into the heart or coronary arteries, provide more accurate information about constrictions...
...weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher education similar to that of Birnbach et al.; we too might learn not to perspire in the shade of palm trees and tennis courts...
...early warning system is designed to detect the launching of Russian missiles in a nuclear attack on this country. Signals from satellites and radars are fed into a network of computers focused at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center (NORAD) in Colorado and three other command centers. The information analysed and displayed by the computers is constantly discussed by members of the four commands in "missile display conferences...
...plant that can reportedly detect low levels of nuclear radiation is now available to the general public, a New York gift company announced yesterday...