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Familial clustering of myocardial infarction in first-degree relatives: a nationwide study

23.04.20131917

Aims Family history is an established risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI), but it is not clear how this risk changes with number and gender of first-degree relatives with MI.

Beet This: More Evidence of BP-Lowering Effects Of Dietary Nitrate

22.04.20132249

A small, proof-of-principle study has demonstrated that the blood-pressure lowering effects of dietary nitrates--already documented in normotensives--are also seen in subjects with established hypertension.

Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history: the Horus study of four ancient populations

19.04.20132129

Atherosclerosis is thought to be a disease of modern human beings and related to contemporary lifestyles.

Discussing sexual function in the cardiology practice

18.04.20132203

In patients with cardiovascular disease, sexual dysfunction is frequently encountered.

Heart Patients Slow to Make Healthy Choices

17.04.20131972

Roughly one in seven patients globally do not adopt healthy lifestyle changes after suffering a stroke or developing coronary heart disease, researchers found.

ACE inhibitor, beta blocker may thwart cardiotoxicity from chemotherapy: Pilot study

16.04.20132462

Lasting cardiac damage from chemotherapy is a tragedy: cancer patients are cured of one life-threatening disease, only to succumb to another—heart failure—as a result of the treatment.

Reports of young cardiologists of the Global Educational Forum “Russian Cardiovascular Days”

16.04.20133056

The young cardiologists having attended the Forum provided their written reports of the Event