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People with diabetes are twice as likely as nondiabetics to suffer a heart attack - most diabetes patients die of heart disease - and for years, physicians have used aggressive drug treatments to lower that risk. To that end, the goal has commonly been to lower blood sugar or control blood-sugar spikes after eating, lower triglycerides and reduce blood pressure in diabetes patients to levels closer to those of healthy, nondiabetic individuals. By using medication to treat these factors, which are linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke in other patients, doctors assumed they would also be reducing...
...blood-pressure study, involving about 4,700 diabetes patients, researchers lowered the participants' systolic blood pressure to either below 120 or 140 using a combination of drugs. But lower blood pressure did not lead to fewer heart attacks or heart-related deaths, and patients taking more drugs to keep their blood pressure under the lower target were more likely to suffer severe side effects...
...other times, Angelology finds an almost hallucinatory power. In a flashback, a 9-year-old Evangeline tails her mysterious father to a darkened warehouse in lower Manhattan. Inside, three cages hang from the ceiling. In each cage is a giant, resplendently winged angel. "One of them appeared to be nearly insane with rage," she recalls. "It clutched the bars and screamed obscenities at its captors standing below. The other two were listless, lying limp and sullen, as if drugged or beaten into submission...
...knew that House liberals would ultimately be forced to swallow the more conservative inclinations of Senate Democrats (and that he could use the insistence of Senators that the legislation move more to the center to get the moderate bill he wanted without having to play the heavy with the lower chamber). And he knew that final passage would require the kind of breathtaking, down-to-the-wire vote-whipping that would demand the full power of his office to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat...
...moment during Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's press conference on Sunday, it was easy to confuse whom he was criticizing when he denounced efforts by some countries to lower the value of their currency to boost trade...