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All People Who Are Taking "fish oil"

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Heart Health Consumer Advocate

JUPITER to Earth: It's the Calcium Score Stupid!

The study known as the "Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin" (JUPITER), was a classical large, long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial designed to determine whether it made sense to start statin treatment (in this case 20 mg of rosuvastatin or... Read moreChevron
posted 11/23/2010, comments (0)|
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Go Red Heart Disease and Women

Every day, women are dying from heart disease at a rate of nearly one per minute.   When we think of diseases that kill women, most people think of breast cancer as being at the top of the lists. But heart disease kills nearly five times as many women as breast cancer.   Consider these statistics:1 Heart disease is the leading... Read moreChevron
posted 02/03/2010, comments (0)|
Diane Deschenes

Diane Deschenes

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Heart attack survivor 10-13-2008 Married 2 children 7 grandkids

surviving the big one

October 13 2008 I began feeling dizzy and nauseated.  I started vomiting and 8 hrs later I went to hospital to get something for my *acid reflux* and discovered I was having complete heart block, a major heart attack.  I now have a 3 stints, am taking medication and vitamins and fish oil and also have a pacemaker.  I am only 50... Read moreChevron
posted 12/24/2008, comments (0)|

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