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Stories about: heart failures

Poor People Suffer 400 Percent More Heart Failures University of Leicester investigators have determined that people with low income are four times more likely to receive a heart failure diagnostic than their peers who are wealthy, or only moderately-better off. Economically-disadvantaged communities were found to hold most heart failure cases.Another population that... 25 January 2011 20:01 GMT New Find Explains Why Diabetes Drugs Affect the Heart Some time ago, researchers figured out that a specific class of anti-diabetes prescription drugs, known as thiazolidinediones (TZD), came with the risk of patients developing heart complications after use. The reason why this happened remained a mystery until recently, when a team of scientists managed to understand ... 23 June 2009 04:02 GMT