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A new weapon in the ongoing war on A heart disease has been forged by some very healthy Italians. A manmade form of cholesterol that mimics a protein in the Italians' blood took only weeks to reverse atherosclerosis in patients whose...
Red grapefruit lowers LDt (bad) cholesterol I\even in people who don't respond to statin drugs, such as Lescol and...
Statins really do lower cholesterol, but that doesn't automatically mean a lower risk of heart problems or death compared with...
It's widely known that low cholesterol levels help prevent heart attack and stroke. But that's only part of...
Congestive heart failure (CHF) risk has been linked to nighttime blood pressure. High blood pressure is a risk factor for CHF, in...
Orthostatic hypotension occurs when blood pressure drops rapidly upon standing. It can result in dizziness, light-headedness or fainting. Recent finding: Patients with...
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Louis J. Ignarro, PhD, I for ground-breaking research into nitric oxide...
Skim milk lowers hypertension risk according to recent research. Recent finding: A two-year study of 5,880 people found that those who...
Systolic (the top number) blood pressure averaged 14 points higher when taken shortly after a patient arrived in the exam room and...
Prehypertension—blood pressure of 120 to 139 mmHg/80 to 89 mmHg—usually is treated with lifestyle measures, such as weight loss,...
More than 300 men who had normal or high blood pressure (above 140/90) were given tests for verbal fluency (generating words)...
The association between hypertension and caffeine had been attributed to coffee, but a new study shows that caffeinated colas increase women'...