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Heart Disease Diagnosis
Chest pain or heart attack are often the first signs of heart disease. But what screening tests can you request in order to check up on your heart health?
Heart Attack Causes and Risk Factors
What causes a heart attack? Are women more likely than men to have a heart attack? We review the risk factors and causes of heart attack here.
Heart Attack
What happens during a heart attack? Get heart attack facts here.
Heart Attack Symptoms
Can you identify early signs and symptoms of a heart attack? Are women heart attack symptoms different than men? Click here to learn when to seek help.
Congestive Heart Failure Treatment
Early diagnosis and treatment of congestive heart failure is critical to recovery. A review of treatment options for children and adults diagnosed with CHF here
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New hidden heart attack culprit identified in women
Researchers at the Cardiac & Vascular Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center have identified a hidden culprit in the battle against women's heart disease. Plaque disruption, a rupture or ulceration of cholesterol plaque in a coronary artery, has been dis
Car fumes ‘raise heart attack risk for six hours’
Breathing in heavy traffic fumes can trigger a heart attack, say UK experts. Heart attack risk is raised for about six hours post-exposure and goes down again after that, researchers found. They say in the British Medical Journal that pollution probably h
Painkiller heart attack risk: Don't stop taking Diclofenac pills but talk to your GP
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SHAPE Doctors Support Million Hearts Initiative: Task Force Calls for Screening to Detect and Treat the Asymptomatic ...
SHAPE, The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (http://www.shapesociety.org), a nonprofit organization that promotes early detection and preventive intervention to eradicate heart attack, issued a letter to the Director of CDC offering sup
SHAPE Doctors Support Million Hearts Initiative: Task Force Calls for Screening to Detect and Treat the Asymptomatic ...
SHAPE, The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication ( http://www.shapesociety.org ), a nonprofit organization that promotes early detection and preventive intervention to eradicate heart attack, issued a letter to the Director of CDC offering s