FEB
22
Homocysteine Levels Not Linked To Coronary Artery Disease Risk
11:05 PM, from SuperUser Account
This week's PLoS Medicine reports on a comprehensive study that reveals that levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no significant effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease. This concludes the ongoing argument of the previously suggested benefits of lowering homocysteine with folate acid...
FEB
22
The Deadly Impact Of Atherothrombosis
11:05 PM, from SuperUser Account
A report published in the February 20 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, a publication of the Australian Medical Association, reveals that nearly 40% of individuals with extensive atherothrombotic disease will experience a cardiovascular event within one year...
FEB
22
Homocysteine Levels Not Linked To Coronary Artery Disease Risk
11:05 PM, from SuperUser Account
This week's PLoS Medicine reports on a comprehensive study that reveals that levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no significant effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease. This concludes the ongoing argument of the previously suggested benefits of lowering homocysteine with folate acid...
FEB
22
The Deadly Impact Of Atherothrombosis
11:05 PM, from SuperUser Account
A report published in the February 20 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, a publication of the Australian Medical Association, reveals that nearly 40% of individuals with extensive atherothrombotic disease will experience a cardiovascular event within one year...
FEB
22
How To Become A Family Nurse Practitioner Online
8:52 PM, from SuperUser Account
If you are a licensed registered nurse you may well be able to enroll in a new online Master of Science in Nursing degree program with a strong focus in Family Nurse Practitioner. This program, offered by Herzing University Online, is available in 27 states in the USA. The University says it is an opportunity for a licensed registered nurse to become a family nurse practitioner. Dr...
FEB
22
Female Heart Attack Patients Have A Higher In-Hospital Mortality Rate Than Men
5:37 PM, from SuperUser Account
A study in the February issue of JAMA, reports that female heart attack patients are more likely to go to hospital without chest pain and have a much higher rate of in-hospital death following a heart attack, compared to men of the same age group. The study, by John G. Canto, M.D., M.S.P.H., of the Watson Clinic and Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Lakeland, Fla...
FEB
22
Free-Access Online Journal Launched By American Heart Association
11:10 AM, from SuperUser Account
The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA) - packed with free peer-reviewed research on heart disease and stroke...
FEB
22
No Link Found Between High Blood Homocysteine Levels And Coronary Heart Disease
11:10 AM, from SuperUser Account
A comprehensive study in this week's PLoS Medicine shows levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no meaningful effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease, closing the door on the previously suggested benefits of lowering homocysteine with folate acid once and for all...
FEB
22
Oral Bacterium Newly Identified Linked To Heart Disease And Meningitis
11:10 AM, from SuperUser Account
A novel bacterium, thought to be a common inhabitant of the oral cavity, has the potential to cause serious disease if it enters the bloodstream, according to a study in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Its identification will allow scientists to work out how it causes disease and evaluate the risk that it poses...
FEB
22
Faith-Based Advocacy And Childhood Obesity
11:10 AM, from SuperUser Account
Faith-based advocacy has been cited as a valuable tool in combating childhood obesity, but evidence is needed to support this assertion and to define how the link between advocacy and policy can contribute to promoting permanent lifestyle changes...
  
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