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'About 45% of heart attacks are silent and cause long-term damage'
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 28 (ANI): As per studies, a silent heart attack is often symptomless but the risk of a person dying is the same as that during a symptomatic heart attack. Though silent heart attacks strike men more often than women, the latter are equally at risk.
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Fitness may not be all for the heart
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 2 (ANI): According to a recent study, even the fittest middle-aged athletes cannot outrun cardiovascular risk factors.
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Whose heart is more at risk: men or women?
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Heart diseases have emerged as the leading cause for fatalities in men and women world over and also in India. The risk of heart diseases to both sexes is grave, but heart diseases affect men and women differently.
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Study finds link between Vitamin D, cholesterol in children
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 8 (ANI): High vitamin D levels is linked to lower cholesterol in children, according to a study.
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Statin patients and their hearts
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 10 (ANI): Seems like, even the patients who consume the cholesterol-lowering drug, are not safe from heart risks.
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Turns out, eggs don't break your heart
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): Despite the conflicting advice, eating up to 12 eggs per week for a year did not raise cardiovascular risk factors in the patients with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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Fatty fish, camelina oil dish out good cholesterol
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Apr 19 (ANI): Turns out, consuming fatty fish and camelina oil, also known as false flax oil, is beneficial for your good cholesterol and decreases bad cholesterol.
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Not many people treated for high cholesterol levels
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Mar. 26 (ANI): Turns out, treatment rates for dangerously high cholesterol are very low.
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Breaking myths about diagnostics
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 (ANI): "I'm still young, how can I have diabetes?", "I am just 30, how can I have osteoporosis?" - Most people have misconceptions regarding certain health issues which, according to them, are just age-related.
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One cigarette a day can significantly damage your heart
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 2 (ANI): For people who think that smoking only one or two cigarettes a day carries little cardiovascular risk, a new study maintains the only way to reduce risk is to quit.
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Butter, sausages may cause tumours to form 100 times faster
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 26 (ANI): Beware! Eating a high-cholesterol diet like butter, ghee, sausages, full fat cream and yogurt may increase risk of colon cancer, warns a recent study.
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Now cut fat without sacrficing
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 7 (ANI): Happy news for people who have been trying hard to shed those extra kilos, as a team of researchers are developing a drug that can selectively shrink excess fat.
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