Word: vascular
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DIED. Leonid Brezhnev, 75, General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee and President of the Soviet Union; of heart and vascular disease; near Moscow (see THE SOVIETS...
Barger, who as chairman of the Med School's animal committee in 1957 helped write the pound bill, uses dogs for his research on hypertension, which he says afflicts between 30 40 million Americans and can lead to heart failure, renal failure and strokes. He simulates renal-vascular hypertension in dogs by means of a surgically implanted cuff that puts pressure on the renal artery...
Though they are made to mimic the appearance of the more expensive amphetamines, look-alike drugs contain no federally controlled substances (i.e., with a high potential of dangerous abuse). Their primary ingredients are caffeine, a stimulant; ephedrine, a vascular constrictor; and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a chemical cousin of amphetamines. The danger lies not in the kinds of chemicals they contain but in the amount. Whereas the average diet-aid capsule may contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry...
...told each other what we had heard from our jock friends--that Nautilus builds strength but not bulk, that its easy to use, and that it was great for our cardio-vascular systems. We talkedabout howvital physical fitness was and about how this year was going to be different. We vowed to stick with Nautilus...
Practitioners consider man as an integrated being, but give special attention to spinal mechanics, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional and environmental relationships. The profession has not espoused the monocausal theory that "illnesses can usually be traced to misalignments in the spinal column" for many years...