Word: risk
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...will not yet order the test. "There is still a school of thought that believes, 'No pain, no worry,' " says Peter Cohn, chief of cardiology at the State University of New York's Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook. He recommends annual testing only for people who are at risk because of diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure or a family history of heart disease. Healthy people not at risk probably should not be concerned, he says. Men at risk should begin testing between the ages of 35 and 40; women...
Some doctors, after diagnosing ischemia, prescribe nitroglycerin, calcium blockers and other drugs that relax constricted arteries or slow the heart rate. Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...
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...
...found that of 51 Allegheny County, Pa., female heart-attack victims over 50, twelve had never given birth. In contrast, only two of 47 healthy women over 50 and from the same neighborhood were not biological mothers. In women 50 or younger, childlessness appeared to be unrelated to the risk of sudden death...
...brother Benny, 51, will move up. Brancato served mainly as an errand boy for Persico, according to New York investigators, and seems to lack real clout. The Aloi brothers, on the other hand, appear to have the Mob smarts to run the family -- if they want to take the risk of doing...