Word: vascularized
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...This position] will allow me to bring to the table my clinical experience in heart failure and coronary vascular disease in a new way,” she said...
...such a possibility was published by researchers at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year. By looking at high-resolution images of the blood vessels of the retina--one of the few places where doctors can easily examine the body's vascular system without an invasive test--they found that women with the narrowest arteries were most likely to have heart disease but that the size of the blood vessels made no difference...
DIED. LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, 55, who wrote searingly of her time as a Vietnam nurse; of a vascular disease perhaps related to Agent Orange; in Herndon, Va. Her book, Home Before Morning, told of the horror of combat surgery--of drunk doctors, lost patients and the special loneliness of a female veteran of our most loathed...
...example). A paper published last year in the journal Angiology found 10 odd cases in France of heavy herbe smokers who developed ischemia (an insufficient blood supply) in their limbs, leading in four cases to amputations. It's not clear that marijuana caused the decreased blood flow, but the vascular problems did worsen during periods of heavy use. Another 2001 paper, in Circulation, found a nearly fivefold increase in the risk for heart attack in the first hour after smoking marijuana--though statistically that means smoking pot is about as dangerous for a fit person as exercise...
...link between ibuprofen and hypertension is a well-established one, said Randall M. Zusman, director of the division of hypertension and vascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a HMS associate professor of medicine...