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View Post: Read About Congestive Heart Failure
The Free Course
4 Nov 2009 by admin   ...
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View Post: Popular diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of heart failure ...
3 Dec 2009 by BJS  
So a team of researchers led by Professor Paul Elliott from Imperial College London set out to investigate the risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction), congestive heart failure and death from any cause associated with prescription ...
View Blog: Science Blog - Science news straight from... - http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/frontpage1

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View Post: Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D ...
1 Dec 2009 by Snowcrash  
Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure. ...
View Blog: Biosingularity - http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/synthetic-production-of-potential...

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View Post: Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes - Health Sciences
3 Dec 2009
People with high blood pressure who had a gene variant that reduces vitamin D activation in the body were found to be twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure, the study found. ...
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View Post: Metformin vs. Sulfonylureas for Diabetes
2 hours ago
During the follow-up, almost 36000 patients had heart attacks, 6900 developed congestive heart failure, and just over 18500 died. Metformin was the most widely prescribed drug, followed by second-generation sulfonylureas. ...
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View Post: Wellesley startup wants to be breath of fresh air for patients ...
12 hours ago by adamg  
Xconomy pumps out the news on NormOxys, which is working on drugs it hopes can get red blood cells to release oxygen to O2-deprived tissue, such as the heart muscle of patients with congestive heart failure. ...
View Blog: Universal Hub - http://www.universalhub.com/

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View Post: Brass and Ivory: RA and Congestive Heart Failure
23 Nov 2009 by brass.and.ivory@gmail.com (Lisa Emrich)  
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have observed that patients with RA have twice the risk of developing congestive heart failure as compared with persons without rheumatoid arthritis. The excess risk stayed elevated even after researchers ...
View Blog: Brass and Ivory - http://brassandivory.blogspot.com/

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View Post: Movin' Meat: Bookends
12 hours ago by shadowfax  
He was having shortness of breath and it turned out he was in congestive heart failure from what turns out to have been his fourth myocardial infarction in as many months. For multiple reasons, common sense primarily among them, ...
View Blog: Movin' Meat - http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/

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