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Articles related to heart disease
Browse: Diabetes Drug Reduces Heart and Kidney Diseases | Browse: Growing a Human Heart, One Embryonic Cell at a Time |
Feature:
Getting to the Heart of Size
The discovery that cardiac muscle cells can divide until adolescence opens the way to new approaches to treating heart disease. |
Browse: Researchers Find Link To Failing Heart In Muscular Dystrophy |
Browse: Safe Vaccine for a Sore Throat – and Heart Disease | Browse: Stand Up for Your Heart |
Browse: Blood Test Predicts the Risk of Heart Attack |
Expert Opinion:
Dark Chocolate and Cocoa May Reduce Blood Pressure
Australian researchers have found that dark chocolate and cocoa powder have a small but statistically significant effect in lowering blood pressure in the short term. The authors say there is a need for long-term trials to determine whether or not blood pressure is reduced on a chronic basis by eating cocoa every day.
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Online Feature:
Viewing Catalyst's cholesterol programs through the sceptometer
Was the ABC wrong to air a program that might encourage people at risk of heart disease to stop taking cholesterol-reducing medications without consulting their GP? |