The extent to which diabetes is tied to heart diseases apparently escaped even the most intricate studies. In a recent investigation, experts in the United States learned that diabetes patients exhibited calcium build-ups in their bodies that were indicators of impending heart attacks or strokes.
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27 September 2011
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Strokes can have debilitating consequences on the human body, and one of the most dangerous is the formation of blood clots inside vessels in the brain. Cerebral blood flow is considerably impaired during and after such an incident, and experts say that in excess of a million nerve cells die each minute. This happens... |
9 June 2010
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Scientists have for many years assumed that, in order for a set of exercises to have the most significant effect, it had to be repeated countless times over, at high levels of intensity. But a new investigation has evidenced that even mild-intensity physical activities can promote a reduction in the number of depress... |
7 June 2010
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The C-reactive protein (CRP), which is regularly produced by the liver, has been the target of medical research over the past few years, as studies have proposed that its presence may be a clear indicator of an increased risk of heart attack or stroke in patients. Over time, the controversy on whether the inflammatio... |
1 July 2009
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The latest scientific data on the matter prove that a controversial type of heart surgery, in which doctors fold the scar tissue of the heart unto itself, has little significant results for the well-being of the patient. Rather, it poses a great danger to their health, on account of the fact that the procedure is ver... |
30 March 2009
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