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Prevent a Second Heart Attack
She may be a dietitian, but publishing her latest book was more a personal mission than a professional one for Dr. Janet Bond Brill. ”Heart disease has touched most of the men in my life,” says the...
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After a Heart Attack
If you’ve survived a heart attack, you’re likely feeling extraordinarily grateful. But you also probably realize that the hard recovery work is just beginning. “If you ask most people what are the...
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Heart Attack Signs
Many people think a heart attack is sudden, like a “movie” heart attack, where someone clutches her chest and falls over. But the truth is that many heart attacks start slowly as mild pain or...
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Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Heart attack, stroke, and other forms of heart disease are a threat to so many women. But you can take steps to protect your heart and lower your risk. Steps include getting regular physical...
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Stroke and Heart Attack Basics
Many women may not be aware that heart disease and stroke are major threats to their health. But heart disease is the number one cause of death among women in the United States, and stroke is number...
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Heart Attack: A Survivor’s Story
Health was much on Alicia McDine’s mind in 2008, but it wasn’t her own health she was worried about. Her mother had passed away in January of that year following a long battle with staph infection...
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Heart Attack Basics
Heart attacks are frequently lethal events. Myocardial infarctions occur when a blood clot stops the flow of blood to the heart, causing damage and even death. The seriousness of the condition merits...
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What Is a Heart Attack?
A heart attack is serious and is considered the leading cause of death for men and women in much of the world. According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, as many as 1.2 million people...
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Heart Attack Survivor Patricia Zaid
Twenty years ago, Patricia Zaid, then 47, woke at dawn to searing pain in her chest and bile in her throat. For months, she’d been short of breath, her chest burning, but emergency room physicians...
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Heart Attack Treatments
Heart disease is the leading cause of death of both men and women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A heart attack is serious. When the movement...
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Personality Change After Heart Attack?
QUESTION: My mother-in-law has always been the most positive, active woman I know. She has been a wonderful role model to all of us. She mothered nine children, now productive adults with children of...
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Could Your Painkiller Kill You?
Taking high doses of painkillers like ibuprofen or diclofenac long-term can increase the risk of heart attack more than a third according to a study reported in The Lancet medical journal. Researchers...
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The One Thing Vanessa Williams Won’t Leave the House Without
It’s Vanessa Williams’ lone day off from a rigorous 8-show-a-week schedule starring in Broadway’s The Trip to Bountiful, but she still woke up at the crack of dawn. Like many women, at any given time...
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How Saving Your Teeth Could Save Your Life
When we were kids, losing teeth meant fairy dust and coinage under our pillows. But losing adult teeth because of periodontal disease—bacteria-fueled infection and inflammation of the gums–points to...
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How could somebody with a clean bill of cardiac health end up in the ER clutching his or her chest? While it’s true that most heart attacks (and strokes) are preventable, many people don’t understand...
View ArticleHeart Attacks: What Women Need to Know
Last summer, Joan O’Malley, 85, of Houston, noticed that her ankles were more swollen than usual. And although she was short of breath, she ignored it. Finally, in the fall, she scheduled an...
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A Happy Heart for the Holidays
We’ve all heard about the “typical” signs of a heart attack, but some are far sneakier than the ordinary left coronary symptoms we’re trained to look out for. What do right coronary symptoms look like?...
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