Finger test 'spots heart disease'
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A fingertip test could detect patients in the earliest stages of heart disease, US scientists have claimed.
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Whether your brother or sister had early heart disease is the best predictor of your own heart health, a study finds.
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The best tool for predicting the risk of heart disease may be a tape measure, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Lowering levels of a protein in the blood could offer another way of reducing the risk of heart disease, a study says.
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More that 50% of early heart diseases cases are not detected by stress tests, according to a new study carried out in the USA.
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The results of a new study suggest that doctors should take preventive action to treat some children for heart disease.
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Oct 05  - New research indicates that individuals who have a brother or sister who developed heart disease at a young age may have an increased risk of also having heart disease.
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Salim Yusuf crisscrossed the globe for nine years in his hunt for heart-attack causes. In Canada, his research had repeatedly found that certain ethnic groups seemed more susceptible to certain conditions, heart disease in particular.
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MUNICH - A simple test that scrutinizes bad cholesterol more closely may more reliably predict who is going to have a heart attack, new research indicates.
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New research shows that many people who have heart disease - or are at risk of developing it owing to factors such as being overweight - also have undiagnosed diabetes, which increases their chance of an early death.
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Rheumatoid arthritis seems to raise  the risk of silent heart disease in patients -- even before  they know they have the chronic condition, U.S. researchers  reported on Thursday.
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A treadmill stress test can predict heart attacks or other serious heart disease even in men without symptoms, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Stress tests aimed at detecting blocked arteries in patients may miss more than half the cases of early heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Stress tests aimed at detecting blocked arteries in patients may miss more than half the cases of early heart disease, US researchers reported on Tuesday.
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A large new study has concluded that measuring the number of lipoprotein particles in the blood may be a better way to predict a person&#39;s heart attack risk than measuring simple cholesterol.
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A measure of blood vessel capacity called endothelial function could be an early predictor of heart problems, a Finnish study finds.
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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.