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What is 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 moreChevron
posted 02/18/2009, comments (2)|
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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 moreChevron
posted 02/05/2009, comments (4)|
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Denver Childers

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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 moreChevron
posted 01/05/2009, comments (0)|
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Heart Disease, Plaque and Gum Disease

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 moreChevron
posted 01/04/2009, comments (5)|
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Link Between Arthritis and Heart Disease Risk Discovered

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Arthritis Research Center of Canada, Vancouver, recently completed a study that has determined that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers have a 50% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease including a 59% increased risk of death due to heart attack and a 52% increase in stroke deaths."... Read moreChevron
posted 12/12/2008, comments (2)|
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