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The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA) – packed with free peer-reviewed research on heart disease and stroke…
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Free-Access Online Journal Launched By American Heart Association
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital have published the first detailed figures showing the risk of using the prescription drug Rasilez in combination with certain other blood pressure-lowering medications…
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Risk Of Using Rasilez In Combination With Certain Blood Pressure-Lowering Drugs
Atrial Fibrillation patients who are prescribed the powerful blood thinner warfarin often take it with vitamins or supplements that can hamper its effectiveness, or skip doses completely, increasing their risk for stroke, according to new research…
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Atrial Fibrillation Patients Who Take Vitamins Less Likely To Take Medication As Prescribed
1. High CHADS2 Score Associated with Complications, Death Among A-Fib Patients on Oral Anticoagulants The CHADS2 score is a clinical prediction rule for estimating stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, but the usefulness of the score in predicting risk of bleeding on anticoagulants is unknown…
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News From Annals Of Internal Medicine: Nov. 15 2011
Results from the PROFI study indicate that the use of a proximal balloon occlusion in carotid artery stenting lead to fewer cerebral ischemic lesions – a predictor of stroke – than with the use of a filter.
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The PROFI Study Results Reported At TCT 2011
People with prehypertension, where blood pressure is at the high end of normal, have a 55% higher risk of having a stroke than people without prehypertension, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Neurology…
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Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal Also Raises Stroke Risk
Findings, published in Nature and Nature Genetics (11/9/2011) by the International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies represent a major advance in our understanding of the inherited influences on blood pressure and offer new potential therapeutic targets for prevention of heart disease and stroke – the biggest cause of death worldwide…
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Research On Genes Associated With Blood Pressure Could Lead To Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease
A study involving more than 200,000 people worldwide has identified 29 DNA sequence variations in locations across the human genome that influence blood pressure…
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