Blood triglycerides seen as heart attack predictor
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Measuring a type of blood fat called triglycerides hours after a person has eaten may offer a better way to predict heart disease risk than making the person fast overnight, two studies suggest.
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Growing evidence suggests that pollutants in car exhaust may trigger heart attacks
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An aggressive, high-dose regimen of cholesterol-lowering drugs within days after a heart attack may reduce further heart problems, says a new large-scale study.
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Does your brother or sister have heart disease? That may be a better predictor of whether you are at risk that your parents&#39; health history, researchers said on Monday.
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The location of body fat on older women can indicate the likelihood of heart disease, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism.
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.
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NEW YORK  - Women with "pre-diabetes" may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.
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WEDNESDAY,  Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men who suffer from migraine headaches appear to be at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, mostly due to a higher risk of having a heart attack, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Heart attack survivors might do  well to begin treatment with a statin drug -- such as Lipitor  or Zocor -- as soon as possible, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Very high levels of   lipoprotein(a), measured by a state-of-the-art assay, are   independently associated with an increased risk of   cardiovascular events in healthy women, Boston-based   investigators report.
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Vegetable oils found in leafy green  vegetables, nuts and flaxseed reduce a woman's risk of dying  from heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A study conducted by &#39;Interheart&#39; and published in The Lancet, has confirmed that stress increases the heart attack risk among people.
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The amount of "good cholesterol" in the blood remains an important marker for heart disease regardless of how much "bad cholesterol" is lowered, researchers said on Wednesday.
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By EMMA ROSS    MUNICH, Germany  -- A simple test that scrutinizes bad cholesterol more closely may more reliably predict who is going to have a heart attack, new research indicates.    The current test measures total cholesterol and the breakdown of good HDL and bad LDL cholesterol...
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NEW YORK  - Systolic blood pressure, the  upper number in a blood-pressure reading, during the recovery  period after exercise stress testing may help predict the risk  of heart attack in men, according to a report in the journal  Hypertension.
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High blood levels of an inflammatory marker called C-reactive protein seem to be a strong indicator of heart disease, and they might someday prove as useful as cholesterol
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NEW YORK  - Blood vessel plaques and the  heart's pumping ability influence survival in people under 40  who've suffered a heart attack, new research shows.