Prevention: Report Urges Screening for Family of Heart Patients
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not suggest a screening for their family as well?
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NEW YORK  - A childhood involving abuse,  neglect, and household dysfunction increases the risk of heart  disease in adulthood, according to a report in the online issue  of the journal Circulation: Journal of the American Heart  Association.
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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.
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WASHINGTON Oct 21, 2004 - A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause of diseases ranging from high blood pressure to high cholesterol and even
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At-risk patients in England are to be offered screening for heart disease and strokes, Gordon Brown is to say.
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BARCELONA, Spain -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide but not nearly enough is being done to educate people about how they can lessen their vulnerability, experts said Tuesday.
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If your brother or sister had a heart attack or has heart disease, researchers at Johns Hopkins say you&#39;re 2.5 to three times more likely to have coronary atherosclerosis.
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Men aged 65 and over in England are to be offered screening for a potentially fatal blood vessel condition.
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Newborns should be screened for heart abnormalities to reduce the risk of cot death, researchers say.
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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' health history, researchers said on Monday.
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A special type of X-ray used to diagnose heart disease may cause cancer in women and young adults and should be used with caution, U.S. doctors reported on Tuesday.
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GENEVA  - Children must be at the forefront of efforts to prevent heart disease, health agencies said as they accused governments of neglecting the 17 million deaths from cardiovascular illness a year.
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NEW YORK  - Authors of a report released this week encourage women who survive breast cancer to address all of the modifiable risk factors they have for heart disease, because breast cancer therapy can damage the heart.
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A large international study led by a Canadian has linked more than 90 per cent of heart attacks to nine easy-to-measure risk factors common to essentially every region and every ethnic group in the world, a media report has said.
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Family doctors say patients should be more aware of their relatives' health history, a survey has found.
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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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NEW YORK  - A new advisory by the American   Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology is   recommending that patients with cardiovascular disease get an   annual vaccination against influenza.