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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: heart attack + risk due + heart  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)

Study warns against increased risk of heart attack
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... product giant Baxter International Inc., which stopped research on a blood substitute a decade ago due to an increased risk of heart attack and death. ...

The Age
Heart risk rises for women
The Age, Australia - May 4, 2008
That's when I thought, 'oh no, I think I'm having a heart attack'." After driving to her GP a short distance away for help, Mrs Nunes will never forget what ...
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Washington Post, United States - May 2, 2008
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Younger Women Miss, Ignore Heart Attack Warning Signs
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15 pc bank employees are at cardiac risk, say experts
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Study debunks heart attack-male baldness link
Reuters UK, UK - Apr 9, 2008
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Accuracy of perceptions of heart attack risk: what influences perceptions and can they be changed? -
NE Avis - American Journal of Public Health, 1989 - Am Public Health Assoc
... sources. They may be due to cognitive errors (eg, lack of information or ...
$1.50 risk factors, and perception of heart attack risk. At ...

Family history of heart attack as an independent predictor of death due to cardiovascular disease -
E Barrett-Connor, K Khaw - Circulation, 1984 - Am Heart Assoc
... Family history of heart attack as an independent predictor of death ... Although a family
history of ischemic heart disease is a well-accepted risk factor for ...

Do cigarette smokers have unrealistic perceptions of their heart attack, cancer, and stroke risks? -
VJ Strecher, MW Kreuter, SC Kobrin - Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1995 - Springer
... though possible, it is unlikely for a smoker to have a pessimistic distortion of
heart attack, cancer, or stroke risk. For this reason, and due to our pri ...

Patient Delay in Seeking Care for Heart Attack Symptoms: Findings from Focus Groups Conducted in … -
JR Finnegan, H Meischke, JG Zapka, L Leviton, A … - Preventive Medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
... Personal risk perceptions: Women: Low perceptions of personal risk of heart attack
due to view of CVD/CHD as ?male problem.? Low awareness of women?s ...

Short Stature, Lung Function and Risk of a Heart Attack -
M WALKER, AG SHAPER, AN PHILLIPS, DG COOK - International Journal of Epidemiology, 1989 - IEA
... SHORT STATURE, LUNG FUNCTION AND RISK OF HEART ATTACK 605 were likely to be due
to the influence of early poverty followed by affluence on the risk of coronary ...

… and Atherogenic Activity of Blood Mononuclear Cells in Persons at Risk of Developing Ischemic Heart … -
JK Smith, R Dykes, JE Douglas, G Krishnaswamy, S … - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
... been documented in patients with ischemic heart disease, 46 possibly due to its ... Wing
AL, Hyder T. Physical activity as an index of heart attack risk in college ...

HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY, HEART DISEASE, AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS -
E Barrett-Connor, D Grady - Annual Reviews in Public Health, 1998 - Annual Reviews
... Similarly, women in the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack trial who ... The amount of CHD risk
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C-Reactive Protein A Simple Test to Help Predict Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke -
PM Ridker - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
... Part of the link between heart disease and diabetes is due to inflammation ... at least
in men, has been shown to reduce the risk of first-ever heart attack. ...

Physical Activity and the Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease -
KE Powell, PD Thompson, CJ Caspersen, JS Kendrick - Annual Reviews in Public Health, 1987 - Annual Reviews
... heart disease (CHD) has been reviewed by a number of qualified authors. Most recent
reviews conclude that physically active individuals are at lower risk for ...

Family history of heart attack: a modifiable risk factor? -
KT Khaw, E Barrett-Connor - Circulation, 1986 - Am Heart Assoc
... For both sexes, cigarette smoking was a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease
in those with a family history of heart attack (relative risk of ...

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Heart Attack Risk From Smoking Due to Genetics
Rochester, N.Y. – December 19, 2007 – Heart attacks among cigarette smokers may have less to do with tobacco than genetics. A common defect in a gene controlling cholesterol metabolism boosts smokers’ risk of an early heart attack, according to a new study in Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology. The findings also show that smokers without the defect normally have heart attacks no sooner than their non-smoking peers.

Although the link between smoking and heart disease was established decades ago, the reasons for that link were unclear. More recent studies suggest smoking interferes with cholesterol metabolism, lowering smokers’ levels of high-density lipoprotein, the good cholesterol that protects against heart-attack risk. An estimated 55 to 60 percent of smokers face the added risk of a defective gene that also lowers levels of the protective high-density lipoprotein. Therefore, the combination of smoking plus a defective gene substantially accentuates the risk of heart attacks in these patients..

Researcher Ilan Goldenberg, M.D., and colleagues were the first to evaluate both smoking history and the genetic trait in heart-attack patients. They found that smokers with the genetic defect had their first heart attack eight to nine years earlier than non-smokers. Smokers with a healthy version of the gene had their first heart attack only three years earlier than non-smokers, a difference the researchers considered non-significant.

“Since the frequency of this ‘bad’ gene in the general population is about 60 percent, many people who smoke have a high risk of experiencing a heart attack at a young age,” Goldenberg said. “This finding should increase awareness for smoking cessation.”

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This study is published in Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact medicalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net.

To view the abstract for this article, please click here.

Ilan Goldenberg, M.D., is a Research Associate Professor in the Cardiology Unit of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Medicine and the Heart Institute and Neufeld Research Institute at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel. Dr. Goldenberg can be reached for questions at Ilan.Goldenberg@heart.rochester.edu.

The Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology is the first journal in an evolving subspecialty that incorporates ongoing advances in the clinical application and technology of traditional and new ECG-based techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac patients. The publication includes topics related to 12-lead, exercise and high-resolution electrocardiography, arrhythmias, ischemia, repolarization phenomena, heart rate variability, circadian rhythms, bioengineering technology, signal-averaged ECGs, T-wave alternans and automatic external defibrillation. Original research, clinical studies, state-of-the-art reviews, case reports, technical notes, and letters to the editors will be published to meet future demands in this field. For more information, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/anec.

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