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 pinpoint causes of heart disease. With all this new technology, how is it possible that over the last several decades the incidence of heart attacks has...
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A med that lowers a person's resting heart rate is being tested in two new clinical trials. Lower resting heart rates have been linked with better... Read more »
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