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BROKEN HEART SYNDROME
Beyond poetry, anecdote, and observation, heart specialists and medical researchers are recognizing a physiological basis for dying of a broken heart.
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Cardiovascular / Articles
HEALTH & ILLNESS–
MISSISSIPPI: CAPITAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Cardiovascular disease—principally heart disease and stroke—is the number one cause of death in the United States. In 2002, it was responsible for 38% of the 2.4 million deaths in the nation.
HEALTH & ILLNESS–
HEART ATTACK: NOT A ONE-TIME EVENT FOR MANY
If you have one heart attack, what are the chances you will have another? As former Vice-President Dick Cheney—who suffered his fifth heart attack this week—probably knows by now, the odds are high.
HEALTH & ILLNESS–
THE VERY HIGH ODDS OF HYPERTENSION
High blood pressure, or hypertension, raises the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease, which causes 1 out of every 2.8 deaths in the US.
HEALTH & ILLNESS–
IN A HEARTBEAT: HEART ATTACK AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
It’s a nightmare scenario for overworked, overstressed Americans: chest pains, shortness of breath, and a rush of panic signaling that they’re having a heart attack. And it’s a well-grounded fear. The odds that a person aged 20 or older in the United States has had a heart attack are 1 in 27.03, rising to 1 in 10.72 for a person aged 35 or older.
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