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There is lot of evidence to suggest
that the coronary
heart disease starts in adolescence. |
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Among women, adherence to lifestyle guidelines
involving diet, exercise, and abstinence from
smoking is associated with a very low risk of
coronary heart disease. |
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In a study of 700 white
men who suffered violent or sudden out-of-hospital deaths,
the HPA-2 Met gene was found 2.2 times more often among
men under the age of 55 who died of sudden cardiac death.
Middle-age white men who carry a common genetic variation are
twice as likely to die of sudden cardiac arrest as those without
the trait, this study found. |
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A study of over 3,400 adults in Saudi
Arabia--a country of tea-lovers--found that those who drank more
than 6 cups per day of the brown beverage had a more than 50% lower
risk of coronary heart disease compared to tea abstainers, even
after adjusting for other factors such as smoking, diet and obesity.
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Stem cells may help patients recover
from heart attacks by triggering new cell growth in damaged tissue.
Two teams of doctors from Germany and Hong Kong reported
promising results after transplanting stem cells extracted from bone
marrow into heart muscle, although they said more research was
needed on the procedure. (Professor Gustav Steinhoff and colleagues
from the University of Rostock, Germany)
The aim of the procedure is to stimulate blood vessel growth in
areas without sufficient blood supply, a process known as
angiogenesis. It could eventually offer hope to patients with
serious coronary heart disease and those unable to undergo bypass
surgery.
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