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1918 Spanish flu records could hold the key to solving future pandemics
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Ninety years after Australian scientists began their race to stop the spread of Spanish flu in Australia, University of Melbourne researchers are hoping records from the 1918 epidemic may hold the key to preventing future ...
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Death rate decreases following hospitalization for heart attack
Aug 18, 2009 |
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From 1995 to 2006, hospital 30-day death rates decreased significantly for Medicare patients hospitalized for a heart attack, as did the variation in the rate between hospitals, according to a study in the August 19 issue ...
Heart attack rates drop after smoking bans, continue downward over time
Sep 21, 2009 |
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One year after passing smoking bans, communities in North America and Europe had 17 percent fewer heart attacks compared to communities without smoking restrictions, and the number of heart attacks kept decreasing with time, ...
Kidney disease linked to lower medication use after heart attack
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Patients with kidney disease—especially end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis—are less likely to receive recommended medications after a heart attack, reports a study in the September 2008 Clinical Journal of ...
Pneumococcal vaccine associated with 50 percent lower risk of heart attacks
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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Pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccination was associated with a 50% lower risk of heart attacks 2 years after vaccination, suggests a large hospital-based case-control study published in CMAJ.
Women are more likely than men to die in hospital from severe heart attack
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Men and women have about the same in-hospital death rate for heart attack — but women are twice as likely to die if hospitalized for a more severe type of heart attack, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of th ...
Study examines link between beta-blocker use and risks of death and heart attack after surgery
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Some patients who received beta-blockers before and around the time of undergoing non-cardiac surgery appear to have higher rates of heart attack and death within 30 days of their surgery, according to a report in the October ...
Men with vitamin D deficiency may have increased risk of heart attack
Jun 09, 2008 |
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Low levels of vitamin D appear to be associated with higher risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) in men, according to a report in the June 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journa ...
Many patients with heart disease have poor knowledge of heart attack symptoms
May 26, 2008 |
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Nearly half of patients with a history of heart disease have poor knowledge about the symptoms of a heart attack and do not perceive themselves to have an elevated cardiovascular risk, according to a report in the May 26 ...
Smoking bans reduce the risk of heart attacks associated with secondhand smoke
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Smoking bans are effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks and heart disease associated with exposure to secondhand smoke, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The report also confirms there is sufficient ...
Most heart attack patients' cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk
Jan 12, 2009 |
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A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a cardiovascular event, according to current national ...
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