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posted 03/04/2009, comments (3)

New Study Explains Steady Rate of New Heart Attacks, But Lower Mortality Rate

One would think that with all the advances in drugs, diet advice, nutritional supplement support, and lifestyle changes being made that the rate of heart attacks would be dropping like a rock. Today, we have methods like heart scans and calcium scores to identify more at risk persons and lipoprotein blood testing to more accurately... Read more Chevron

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posted 02/18/2009, comments (0)

What’s So Unstable About Unstable Angina?

Hang around a hospital coronary care unit, and you will hear the phrase "unstable angina" used a lot. "Mr. Smith was admitted last evening with unstable angina." "Mrs. Jones has unstable angina and is going to the cath lab today." Just what does "unstable angina" mean? And what makes it so "unstable"? The term... Read more Chevron

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posted 02/05/2009, comments (4)

Paul's Story

Just five days shy of February and Heart Health Month, my best friend and lawyer suffered a sudden and massive heart attack. Efforts to stabilize him and provide emergency cardiac intervention were unsuccessful. He left behind a wife and two children and a hole in the universe of friends and family world-wide. Paul had a... Read more Chevron

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Denver Childers

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posted 01/05/2009, comments (0)

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I'm a Viet Vet 67&68. At age 48 in 12-05 I had 4 bypasses, Dr told me my arteries were very diseased & could not have another bypass. After 6 weeks I had my 1st heart attack, have had 6 more since then. After 13 years I have had 53 heart cath's and 38 stents placed in my arteries. My Cardologist wrote a letter to VA... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/04/2009, comments (5)

The Missing Link Between Heart Disease and Dental Health

For years there have been hints and hypotheses that heart disease and periodontal (gum) disease are associated or share common factors. Among the more humorous notions held by the uninformed press and public was that heart plaque and tooth plaque were somehow the same thing. That dubious notion notwithstanding there have long been... Read more Chevron

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