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Harvard Heart Letter archives from May 2002
Metabolic Syndrome: Putting the Heart in Harm's Way.
May 1, 2002... The Deadly Quartet sounds like chamber music by Stockhausen or the latest release from The Thrashing Spittle. It's actually something worse - a constellation of problems that puts you at serious risk for heart disease, stroke, or diabetes.
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A Double Jolt for Heart Failure.(biventricular pacemaker)
May 1, 2002... The 21st century is ushering in a new era of treatments for heart failure. The old standbys of drugs and lifestyle changes are now being joined by devices that help - or even replace - failing hearts.
The most dramatic of these is the...
Heartbeats - Viagra Is Safe for Some Men With Heart Disease.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Now that the hype and giddy media attention have faded and Viagra has become an established treatment for erectile dysfunction, questions still linger about its safety for men with heart disease. Published guidelines say that Viagra...
Heartbeats - Graze Your Way to Lower Cholesterol.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... If your cholesterol is a bit on the high side and you're looking for a medication-free way to lower it, try this: instead of eating two or three large meals a day, switch to six smaller ones.
Several small, short-term studies have shown...
Heartbeats - A Good Marriage Delays Until Death Do You Part.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... "He died to get away from her." This wry comment, made on the way home from some funerals, reflects a common belief that people with happy marriages live longer than those with unhappy ones. There may be some truth to this notion.
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Ask the Doctor.(heart disease risk)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Q My father died of a heart attack when he was 55. I am now about the same age, and, so far, so good. How important is my family history of heart disease?
A It's hard to answer this question definitively. Part of the difficulty is that...
Ask the Doctor (2).(cardiovascular disease prevention)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Q I read a lot about cardiovascular disease and hear so much different advice that it's tough to know what to do. I am basically healthy, but I have a lot of heart disease in my family. Can you give me a simple set of recommendations that will...