Heart disease can strike with few warning signs
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Former president Bill Clinton has become one of 64 million Americans with diagnosed heart disease. As many as 4 million more have a &quot;silent&quot; illness with no symptoms to betray their risk, doctors say.
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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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Despite evidence that women are as prone to heart attacks as men, new studies released today show that many doctors fail to treat them as aggressively.
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NEW YORK  - People with abnormalities in  the microvessels supplying blood to the heart -- an early stage  of coronary heart disease -- often show abnormal blood flow in  the fingertip, which can easily be picked up with a simple  test, new research suggests.
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Diabetes is an undetected and silent threat for many people who end up with heart disease, according to new research published on Monday.
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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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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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The best tool for predicting the risk of heart disease may be a tape measure, researchers said on Tuesday.
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A newly identified risk factor for heart disease also seems to indicate which patients will benefit from popular statin therapies.
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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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Cold snaps and air pollution can trigger heart deaths, and breathing dirty air day in and day out may help heart disease develop in the first place, researchers said on Sunday.
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Scientists say changes in children's small blood vessels could be used to predict heart disease in later life.
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A treadmill stress test can predict heart attacks or other serious heart disease even in men without symptoms, US researchers reported on Monday.
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When it comes to heart disease, being fit may be more important than being thin, according to a study of more than 900 women published 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, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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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.
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that "normal" blood pressure may not be low enough.