Does the rate of heart attack and other heart emergencies increase during sporting events?
That's the questions asked by researchers in a study (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/5/475) published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. They determined that soccer fans experienced more than double the number of heart attacks while watching televised matches of the 2006 World Cup soccer championships in Munich, Germany, compared to other times of the year. (The World...
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Trying to separate diet myths from the truth can get rather confusing to say the least. Indeed many of the diets out there completely... Read more »
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Blood is carried from the heart to all the body's tissues and organs in pipes, called arteries and veins. Blood pressure is the force of the blood... Read more »
Genetic researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that high blood levels of lipoprotein(a), a fat-carrying molecule, can lead to the... Read more »
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