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Earlier this year, the FDA asked the manufacturer of Meridia to revise its label after concluding that the drug may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with a history of heart disease.

She notes that the patients taking Meridia who were at greater risk for heart attack and stroke in the SCOUT study — those with preexisting cardiovascular disease — are already precluded from taking the drug.

Jan. 19, 2017 — More than a decade after the anti-inflammatory drugs Vioxx and Bextra were pulled from the market because of a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients, COX - 2 inhibitors may be on the verge of a comeback, this time as anti-cancer agents.

More than a decade after the anti-inflammatory drugs Vioxx and Bextra were pulled from the market because of a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients, COX - 2 inhibitors may be on the verge of a comeback, this time as anti-cancer agents.

Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in humans caused by atherosclerosis, in which artery walls thicken and suffer reduced plasticity due to an accumulation of white blood cells.

Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in humans caused by atherosclerosis.

Novartis Pharma advertisements had pointed to the studies as showing that the use of Diovan reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke in hypertension patients better than alternative medications.

«There has been, and continues to be, a lot of confusion about what's going on with this class of drugs, since we don't yet have one that can be brought to the clinic to prevent heart attack and stroke in our patients,» Nicholls said.

A low incidence of heart attack and stroke in PD patients in movement disorder clinics, despite their usually advanced age motivated these studies.

«This study represents promise that this treatment may reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in the future.

Such responses, known as reperfusion injury, contribute to the deadly effects of heart attacks and strokes in humans.

In the past few years alone, researchers have had to backtrack on the health benefits of low - fat, high - fiber diets and the value and safety of hormone replacement therapy as well as the arthritis drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market after being found to cause heart attacks and strokes in high - risk patients.

The follow - up study cited by Ioannidis tested whether vitamin E prevented heart attacks and strokes in men and women over the age of 55 who already had cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

«Reducing the amount of salt in processed foods and restaurant foods is perhaps the single most important thing we could do to reduce blood pressure and the incidence of heart attacks and strokes in this country and around the world,» Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), said after a recent confab of food industry and health reps designed to help consumers limit their salt intake.

It contains the chemical syndephrine, which has been linked to heart attacks and strokes in healthy people when taken alone or combined with caffeine.

According to Bloomberg News, the «U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will re-examine the safety of testosterone replacement drugs after two studies showed a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes in men who use them.»

Giving the drugs to nearly 70,000 people with cardiovascular disease or diabetes prevented an estimated 1,271 heart attacks and strokes in one year, Dr. James Dudl of Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute and his colleagues reported in the American Journal of Managed Care.

Not exact matches

New York City adopted the rule, which took effect on Tuesday, in an effort to help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

What's more, the clinic's easy access prompted workers who hadn't seen a doctor in years to get checkups; many ended up identifying conditions, like hypertension, that contribute to heart attacks and strokes.

Heat is rarely listed as a cause of death, but it can be a factor in heart attacks, strokes, and respiratory arrests.

The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.

The risk of arterial clotting can lead to stroke, and heart attack; those of venous clot can lead to a deadly pulmonary embolus, or in those with a patent (still open) foramen ovale in the heart, to a paradoxical embolus to the brain and a stroke.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

Health benefits for black rice include decreasing chances of a heart attack and stroke, improving digestive health, helping detoxify the body of harmful build - ups, aiding in healthy weight loss, helping prevent diabetes, and preventing obesity.

Elevated levels of homocysteine circulated in our blood increases our risk for heart attack and stroke.

Intake of these foods protect against the formation of plaque in arteries and is associated with the reduced occurrence of heart attack and stroke (53).

The heart - healthy Omega - 3 fat found in salmon is associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular problems, such as heart attacks, strokes, heart arrhythmias, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides circulating in the blood.

Bananas are high in potassium and low in salt and able to lower blood pressure, protect against heart attack and stroke and act as a prebiotic.

I though that as readers of my articles on MomsTEAM are likely to have an interest in this subject, as I'm sure every one of you has been affected by an overweight relative or friend who is dealing with cancer, heart attack, stroke, and / or diabetes, and want to keep your kids from having those kinds of health problems.

Bromocriptine, another medication used in the past, can cause high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, MayoClinic.com notes.

A new study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association links reduced consumption of trans fats found in things like frying oils to reduced instances of myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) and strokes reported in New York counties that enacted bans.

That makes them the main culprits in the obesity epidemic which contributes to the UK's top killers: heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and cancer.

So users may embark on the slow death of addiction or death from stroke heart attack or other organ failure and the number of overdose deaths involving methamphetamine have doubled in just two years,» said Jaquith.

It is recognised that living in a cold, damp home affects physical health and worsens respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis; increases the incidence of colds; raises blood pressure which in turn may increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks for some, and in extreme cases hypothermia / mild hypothermia may be an issue for very vulnerable households.

People living in a cold home are at higher risk of lung conditions, heart attack, stroke and mental health problems.

Many people, worried about rising energy costs, choose to ration their energy use, unaware that living in a cold home can actually cause or exacerbate a range of serious health conditions such as strokes, heart attacks and bronchitis.

I was diagnosed as a diabetic in 1994, my control was very poor and by 2007 I was warned that I was entering a high risk zone for a stroke or heart attack.

A multicenter study that previously reported a reduction in heart attack and stroke with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or with nuts now also reports a lower risk of peripheral artery disease, according to a study in the January 22/29 issue of JAMA.

Six years ago, a handful of researchers at Lund University in Sweden started taking an interest in how to make it easier to recognise unstable plaques that in worst case scenarios rupture and cause heart attacks or strokes.

Patients also have to factor in their own sense of how much they fear a heart attack or stroke — all the while knowing there are other means of prevention with almost no risk that can get lost in the statin debate, including weight loss, exercise and a better diet.

Statins, a class of drugs that lower cholesterol in the blood, are prescribed to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes.

The original research from the landmark Physician's Health Study, in which Hennekens was the founding principal investigator, was the first to demonstrate that hs - CRP predicted future heart attacks and strokes.

In the accompanying editorial titled, «Can a Toothpaste Reduce Heart Attacks and Strokes?

For decades, research has suggested a link between oral health and inflammatory diseases affecting the entire body — in particular, heart attacks and strokes.

In fact, after follow - up (2.5 to 3.1 years), there were a total of 216 adverse events reported among study participants including 108 deaths, of which 27 were cardiovascular, plus 34 heart attacks, 30 strokes, 18 experienced unstable angina and hospitalized, and 79 needed revascularization procedures.

Being overweight raises the risk of diseases like heart attacks, strokes and cancer, and takes a financial toll in terms of healthcare costs and lost work days.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

LDL cholesterol causes fat and plaque to build up in arteries, increasing the risk for heart attacks and strokes.

Following additional scrutiny after Vioxx's withdrawal, and the addition of cardiovascular experts to the trial's data safety monitoring board, the DSMB concluded that patients taking a high dose of Celebrex had a 3.4-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks or strokes compared to those on placebo; those on a moderate dose had a 2.5-fold increase in risk.

James Mitchell, who studies stress resistance at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, was especially interested in ischemic reperfusion injury, a problem that often occurs with heart attacks and strokes, and sometimes even from heart and vascular surgery.