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Part of the answer may lie in a report published two months ago in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. In a study of some 1,900 men ages 42 to 60, Finnish researchers determined that the risk of heart attack was greater among men with high blood levels of iron than in those with lower readings. For each 1% increase in the amount of ferritin (a protein that binds iron), the risk of heart attack increased by 4%. The reason, many doctors suspect, is that iron may interact with LDL, "the bad cholesterol," in a way that promotes...
Nearly 2,000 Finnish men between the ages of 42 and 60, with no obvious evidence of heart disease, were monitored from 1984 through 1989; 51 ended up with heart attacks. It turned out that the second strongest risk factor, after smoking, was the blood level of a protein called ferritin -- and ferritin is a good indicator of overall iron levels. For each 1% increase of blood ferritin, there was more than a 4% increase in heart-attack risk. A ferritin level of 200 or more, compared with the normal 100 to 150, doubled the risk. The mechanism is unclear...
...during the Suez crisis, Gallagher sat in the cockpit of an F-84 Thunderjet at England's Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base, an atom bomb fixed beneath his plane. On high alert, he waited for a single command to take off. His target was a Finnish airfield, presumably one the Soviets would otherwise use. "I don't think people realize how close we were ((to nuclear war))," he says. From 1958 to 1962, he was squadron commander of Outpost Mission, on call to rescue the President from nuclear attack; three years later he went to Mount Weather...
...atom carbon molecules are named after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized the geodesic dome they resemble. They've never been seen outside the lab -- until now. Geologists tracked down buckyballs in the wilds of Russia in an unusual, ancient, carbon-rich rock near the town of Shunga, close to the Finnish border...
...superiority, the drug almost didn't make it to the U.S. market. Approved in several European countries in 1969, it was quickly withdrawn six years later, after Finnish doctors reported that eight patients taking the drug had died of agranulocytosis, a sudden loss of infection-fighting white blood cells. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration halted even preliminary tests. "We assumed it was a dead product," recalls psychopharmacologist Gilbert Honigfeld, who helped develop the drug for Sandoz and is now in charge of marketing it in the U.S. American and European research eventually showed that agranulocytosis occurred...