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A heart attack is known among cardiologists as both myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It occurs when insufficient blood flow to a portion of the heart muscle leads to the death of the starved cells.
In many cases, heart attacks occur as a result of a blockage obstructing the coronary ... |
13 December 2011
06:36 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that studies conducted on the effects that the chemical steroid cholesterol has on the brain have revealed a potential role for it in the fight against highly-aggressive forms of brain cancer, such as glioblastomas.
Investigators h... |
16 September 2011
06:02 GMT |
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American scientists say that copper and zinc in every day’s diet could affect the action of statin drugs, medications prescribed to lower cholesterol.
Statins inhibit an enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol, so they are drugs used to prevent cholesterol deposits that can lead to heart disease.
The molecule... |
28 January 2011
02:05 GMT |
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The typical American-style diet is full of high fat and cholesterol levels and, according to a new research conducted by scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, it plays a very important role in the growth and spread of breast cancer.The researchers used a mouse model to analyze the role of fat and chole... |
7 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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In a newly-published study, researchers announce the completion of the longest-term scientific research on the effects of lipoproteins on coronary heart diseases, and other related afflictions. The investigation, which spans more than 29 years, is three times longer than any other ever made.
Back in 1966, a team ... |
5 January 2011
02:46 GMT |
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A high fat diet is generally unhealthy but it appears that it also aggravates sepsis, a new experimental study in mice suggests.Sepsis is a very serious medical condition that manifests itself through a whole-body inflammatory state – a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS, due to the presence of a k... |
19 October 2010
08:40 GMT |
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Whenever we get hungry, this feeling is being recognized by the brain on account of the actions the hunger-signaling hormone ghrelin takes. The chemical is essential for our well-being, as it alerts us whenever we need nourishment. But researchers have recently found that it also plays an important role in controllin... |
7 June 2010
02:46 GMT |
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Increased cholesterol levels are very dangerous for the circulatory system and the heart, experts warn, and people should take active measures to ensure that they stay within reasonable limits. A new report would seem to suggest that one easy way of doing this is by introducing pistachios and other types of nuts into... |
18 May 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Eating moderate amounts of dietary sugar can be beneficial for health, and may please people, but consuming a lot more of the stuff can have serious adverse consequences. According to a new scientific study, it would appear that ingesting some 21 spoonfuls of sugar each day can lead to a significant drop in “go... |
28 April 2010
02:47 GMT |
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In a finding that could help healthcare experts identify new courses of treatment for one of the most common age-related eye disease in the world, a group of scientists managed to establish a direct link between a gene regulating “good cholesterol” and macular degeneration. The condition is the most commo... |
13 April 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Producing the neurotransmitter dopamine outside the brain is one of the main goals in medicine today, but devising setups for this, as in creating dopamine-producing neurons, has proven to be extremely difficult. Now, this goal may be one step closer to reality, thanks to a new study by experts at the Swedish medical... |
2 October 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Scientists have known for a long time that a causal connection exists between diabetes and obesity, but new drugs and therapies developed in the lab have always focused on treating either one of the two, and not both at the same time. However, as Reuters reports, a new medicine apparently has the ability to make lab ... |
28 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to General Mills, maker of Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal, which claims to lower cholesterol by 4 percent in just 6 weeks. Because the product makes claims specific to a drug, the FDA is asking for the package to be changed – otherwi... |
13 May 2009
15:11 GMT |
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If you're struggling with high cholesterol - whether it's genetically inherited or a result of your lifestyle - and would like to avoid taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs), you could try the low-fat portfolio eating plan. This is a long-term dietary solution that involves eating a variety of foods w... |
6 June 2008
11:06 GMT |
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If ever there was a clinical trial in which all of us would love to take part, it's got to be this one: a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, focused on how eating dark chocolate impacts the human body. Can you spell yum? And apparently, it gets better: the results of t... |
14 May 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Since childhood, you've been hearing that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat, but now, a now a series of researches have been made to show the beneficial health effects of chocolate. There is only one condition though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even up to 60-75%. Thus, we're talki... |
22 April 2008
02:37 GMT |
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It is a vivid controversy: to eat or not to eat eggs. While a recent research has showed that consuming eggs reduces the risk of breast cancer in women by 24%, thanks to choline, a new one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals that middle-aged men who eat seven or more eggs hurry up to their... |
12 April 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Cholesterol may be dangerous, but it also has its good variant in the blood that decreases the risk of heart attack. If a new research made on mice has results that are also valid for humans, new therapies could boost the levels of the beneficial high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) as a means of heart protec... |
8 August 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Scientists are working hard to demonstrate the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, such as easing muscular pain or gout symptoms, or increasing sex drive. Others show that its effects are rather bogus, like the so-called energizing effect. But others get back to the subject, showing and - even more - ex... |
15 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Bacteria in your guts are not just simple guests eating on your leftovers. Beside digestive conditions, these bugs induce more severe problems, like obesity and now they were found to influence how fat is digested and deposited in the liver. An imbalanced gut flora can affect this metabolic path and trigger diseases.... |
25 May 2007
04:49 GMT |
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It is already clear that HIV infection induces metabolic shifts like impaired levels of cholesterol blood levels, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes, all correlated to changes of fat distribution. Now a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has linked HIV infection also to a higher risk of heart attack. Ev... |
24 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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