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Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Results Announced at Heart Rhythm 2010: A Sub-study of MADIT-CRT on Left Ventricular Lead Position

New trial reveals clinical outcomes of left ventricular lead position on mortality and heart failure results in patients
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Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Results Announced at Heart Rhythm 2010: Programming Strategies Associated with Shock Reduction

New, large trial reveals strategic programming of cardiac devices reduces number of inappropriate shocks and may improve survival rates...
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Green Light Affects Circadian Rhythms

Researchers show that green light is effective in eliciting non-visual responses to light such as resetting circadian rhythms, affecting melatonin production and alerting the brain. ...
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Overtime is bad for the heart

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management...
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Simple Blood Test May Predict Who Might Develop Type 2 Diabetes among Healthy Women

Doctors may have identified a new and simple way to predict risk for developing type 2 diabetes. This increasingly widespread disease affects over 58 million Americans and often leads to cardiovascular disease, amputations, blindness and stroke. ...
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The prevention of heart disease begins in childhood

Press Release EuroPRevent 2010: Teenage schoolchildren in San Marino take up the health ambassador challenge ...
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Treatment of European coronary patients fails to meet the targets of international guidelines

Prague -- The application of clear, evidence-based guidelines in everyday practice for the prevention of further coronary events is "disappointing", according to a report from the third EUROASPIRE survey presented in Prague at EuroPRevent 2010, the year's principal event for all those engaged in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.(1) "The majority of coronary patients are not achieving blood pressure, lipid and diabetes targets as defined in the Prevention Guidelines," said investigator Dr Kornelia Kotseva from the National Heart & Lung Institute in London. ...
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Moderate coffee drinking may benefit patients following acute coronary event

Prague -- The effect of coffee consumption on the risk of heart disease has stirred much debate in recent years. ...
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Joslin Research Shows Insulin Guards Against Artery Damage

Study could help to settle controversy about insulin use in type 2 diabetes ...
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Heart Drug Effective for Treating Symptom of Muscular Dystrophy

A medication most often used to treat heart arrhythmias also reduces a central symptom of myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults. ...
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