'Heart' Tag

• Study questions frequency of heart angiograms

  March 12, 2010

  [Story ID: 808]
  A recent study raises questions about the frequency of doctors’ use of elective heart angiograms, which showed no disease in almost 40 percent of patients. BusinessWeek reports: “Doctors may be sending patients too quickly for elective angiograms to detect heart disease, exposing them to radiation and driving up U.S. health-care costs, a study [...]

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• Study reveals underrepresentation of women in cardiovascular clinical trials

  February 20, 2010

  [Story ID: 469]
  Women are substantially underrepresented in clinical trials used to formulate women’s guidelines and are affected more than men by low social support after a heart attack, according to two studies in the women-themed issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association.

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• Report on the Canadian heart health strategy

  February 6, 2010

  [Story ID: 249]
  The Conference Board of Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society will hold a press conference on Monday, February 8 to announce the findings of the report, The Canadian Heart Health Strategy: Risk Factors and Future Cost Implications.

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• American Heart Month aims to spread awareness of women and heart disease

  February 5, 2010

  [Story ID: 224]
  More than five times as many women are diagnosed with heart disease each year than with breast cancer. American Heart Month in February aims to spread awareness of women and heart disease, and one Alabama company has found the quickest way to a woman’s heart might be through her gynecologist.

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• Research shows DNA looping can impact gene expression

  February 3, 2010

  [Story ID: 171]
  University of Michigan researchers have shown that tension on DNA molecules can affect gene expression—the process at the heart of biological function that tells a cell what to do.

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