Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first clue is often the catastrophe itself: a fatal heart attack. But the events that set the stage for disaster, like those preceding an earthquake, have been occurring for years beneath the surface, painless and unnoticed. The culprit is silent ischemia, an intermittent interruption of blood flow to the heart, which kills tens of thousands of seemingly healthy Americans each year. Doctors estimate that the condition, undetected, exists in an additional 3 million to 4 million people known to have heart disease and further increases the likelihood they will suffer a heart attack...
...Cardiologist Sidney Gottlieb, examined 103 heartattack patients who seemed to be recovering without complications or pain and found that 30 were having ischemic episodes. One year later nine (30%) of these people had died from heart attacks. Of the 73 without silent ischemia, only eight (11%) had suffered fatal heart attacks. "If you have had a heart attack and you have ischemia," Gottlieb concluded, "you may have a three times greater risk of dying...
Having children can sometimes be a trial. But a study revealed at the Dallas meeting last week by Epidemiologist Evelyn Talbott suggests that not having offspring can lead to far more serious consequences. Childless women over 50, she reported, may be at greater risk for sudden, fatal heart attacks than their contemporaries who are mothers...
...waves it emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought we had found a fatal flaw, that the whole thing was crackers. But we haven't so far." A string loop, it seemed, could theoretically produce an awesome void...
...with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, cancer or a suppressed immune response; parents or siblings of children who are at risk; anyone under age 18 who must take aspirin (the combination of aspirin and a viral infection has been linked to a sometimes fatal brain disorder called Reye's syndrome). People over 35 who are at risk and all those over 65 who are otherwise healthy need take only the standard flu shot...