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Stories about: coronary artery disease

Misleading Labels Endanger Your Health It seems that people really don't know much about the amount of trans fat contained in the products they eat, and all this because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling protocol and policy, keeps people uninformed.This is what an article written by Eric Brandt, a Case Western Reserve University School ... 3 January 2011 10:31 GMT Smoking Puts You at Risk for Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Not smoking or quitting this vice can only help people's health and here is another reason to consider dropping the cigarette: smoking causes over one third of cases of the most severe and frequent form of rheumatoid arthritis.Swedish researchers studied over 1,200 people with rheumatoid arthritis and 871 people... 14 December 2010 03:51 GMT Diabetics Have Higher Risks of Heart Conditions Recently-published studies link type II diabetes with a higher chance of patients developing heart conditions, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), and suffering a stroke or a heart attack afterwards. The risk was also linked to the presence of a specific gene, residing on chromosome 9p21, whose mutation ups the ch... 26 November 2008 06:43 GMT