Vital Signs: 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 identify suggest a screening for their family as well?
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The 36-year-old South Asian immigrant didn't seem like a typical candidate for a heart attack. He was lean, a nonsmoker and had healthy blood pressure, although his cholesterol levels hovered just above normal. But when his chest pain lasted for an hour, he headed for the emergency room.
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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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Whether your brothers or sisters had early heart disease is the best predictor of your own heart health, US research suggests. Sibling history predicted heart disease risk better than parental history or traditional
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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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Screening relatives of middle-aged people who suffer heart attacks would save lives, say experts.
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Older male smokers and ex-smokers should get at least one ultrasound scan to make sure they do not have a developing aneurysm near the heart, a team of U.S. experts advised 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, US researchers reported on Tuesday.
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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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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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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that "normal" blood pressure may not be low enough.
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If you have a brother or sister who had a heart attack at an early age, start paying attention to your own arteries because youâre at increased risk for heart trouble, a new study finds.
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What parents do -- and don&#39;t do -- before the birth of a child and through the early years of life has a significant effect on the child&#39;s risk of developing heart disease as an adult, two studies find.
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Older male smokers and ex-smokers  should get at least one ultrasound scan to make sure they do  not have a developing aneurysm near the heart, a team of U.S.  experts advised on Monday.
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Thousands of people with heart failure are going undiagnosed, the Healthcare Commission has warned.
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CAMPAIGNERS hope that shocking statistics on the global epidemic of heart disease and strokes will prompt countries to take action to reduce risks to health.