Word: heart
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...there anything superaspirins can't do? Unfortunately, COX-2 inhibitors, unlike aspirin, have little or no effect on heart disease, since it's the COX-1 enzymes that cause blood clotting. But so far, no one knows how to block the COX-1 enzymes in the bloodstream without also affecting the ones that help protect the stomach...
Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart, of course. It occurs when acidic juices from the stomach gurgle their way past a doughnut-shaped valve and into the esophagus. Unlike the stomach, the esophagus has no protective lining against corrosion. Repeated bouts of reflux eat away at its inner wall, triggering excessive scarring and bleeding. Sometimes the acid reaches the vocal cords, causing hoarseness. Other times it spills over into the lungs, triggering a potentially serious condition that mimics asthma...
After Jerry Garcia, the bearded, avuncular guitarist for the Grateful Dead, died of a heart attack while in a drug-rehab facility in 1995, one of the band's two drummers, Mickey Hart, gradually withdrew from life. He stopped going out as much, and he wouldn't play Grateful Dead music at all; he couldn't even listen to it. "I didn't play it in the house for about a year and a half," Hart says, remembering. "Oh man, are you kidding? I would cry. It was just too painful. Jerry was my best friend and the heart...
Robert A. Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson: "Yes, with all my heart. There's so much about myself that I don't understand, and I'd love to have it explained to me. The only problem is, Who's going to write it?... I would pick Lady Bird Johnson. I've never heard her say an unkind word about anyone...
...healthy diet may not be enough to ward off heart disease. In a study of those at risk, LDL, or "bad," cholesterol levels fell 13% in men and 9% in women who combined a low-fat diet with exercise. But for those who only changed their diet, LDLs fell by only half of those percentages...