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Harvard Heart Letter archives from June 2002
Off-Pump Bypass.
June 1, 2002... The invention of the heart-lung machine a half-century ago revolutionized the treatment of heart disease. By oxygenating and circulating blood without help from the heart or lungs, it allowed surgeons to stop the heart and paved the way for...
Coffee and the Heart.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Like those irritating tunes you just can't get out of your head, some medical "facts" stay with us even when they turn out to be false. Take the connection between coffee and heart disease. Many people think that drinking coffee harms the...
Wider Use for Implantable Defibrillators.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... More and more people survive heart attacks these days, thanks to greater awareness of heart attack symptoms plus better and faster treatments. Some survivors end up with minimal changes in their heart function. Others must live with extensive...
No Holiday for Hard-Working Statins.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are like ever-vigilant guards. They offer protection against heart attack, stroke, and heart-related death to people with stable coronary artery disease, at high risk for it, being treated for an...
A Pinch of Niacin Raises HDL.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Statins are excellent drugs for bringing down high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, "bad") cholesterol. But they don't do much to boost levels of protective high-density lipoprotein (HDL, "good") cholesterol.
It is hard to increase...
Low Heart Risk After Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The last thing a woman with breast cancer needs to worry about is whether her treatment could lead to heart disease. Reassuring news from Canada helps push that thought a bit further from mind.
Radiation is a key treatment for early-stage...
Ask the Doctor.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Q My total cholesterol level is well below 200. My LDL is low, my HDL high, and my triglycerides and homocysteine are both in the "desirable" range.
The one thing out of whack is that my lipoprotein(a) level is more than double the...
Ask the Doctor [I].(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Q I am a 70-year-old man with high blood pressure that I control with medication, diet, and exercise. My mother, aunt, and maternal grandfather all died in their 50s after a single stroke. Is there an inherited tendency to hemorrhagic stroke?...