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The New Heart Threat for Young Adults

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:18:13 +0000

About 90 percent of strokes each year in the U.S. occur in people age 50 and older. Yet alarming new research shows that significantly more young adults are experiencing stroke, even as rates among older people may be improving. The new data, from the Centers for Disease Control, found a significant increase in hospitalizations due to stroke among men and ...

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Air Pollution and Heart Disease

Cleveland Heartlab — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:33:13 +0000

Air Pollution’s Surprising Heart Risks and What You Can Do to Lower Them The health threats of air pollution have been getting a lot of attention lately, and the news is both surprising and worrisome. A rash of new studies suggests that breathing in bad air isn’t just associated with respiratory ills like asthma or emphysema, but also with several ...

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Two Risk Factors for Heart Disease that Only Women Can Have

Cleveland Heartlab — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:25:56 +0000

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), or heart disease, is the number one killer of women in the United States, causing one in four deaths. The majority of women who die suddenly from CVD, 64 percent, never knew they had it because they had no symptoms. As we recently reported, many women aren’t aware of their risk of CVD, even if they do ...

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3 New Tests to Predict Heart Attack and Stroke Risk

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:54:02 +0000

Three new blood tests can help identify hidden risk for a heart attack or stroke in seemingly healthy patients—before symptoms strike. The new tests, now available through Cleveland HeartLab (CHL), check levels of certain biomarkers that have been linked to cardiovascular danger in peer-reviewed studies. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading killer of men and women, accounting for one in ...

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Many Young Women Don’t Know They’re at Risk Until a Heart Attack Occurs: Here’s Why and How to Protect Yourself

Cleveland Heartlab — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:30:32 +0000

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise among younger women, yet many of them are unaware of their risk until they actually suffer a heart attack, according to a Yale School of Public Health study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). Only 53 percent of the young heart attack survivors studied ...

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The Vitamin That Fights Inflammation

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:38:45 +0000

A new study is the first to show that combining weight loss with an inexpensive vitamin supplement can reduce chronic inflammation more than weight loss alone. Chronic inflammation has been linked to a wide range of disorders, from cardiovascular disease to type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and even cancer. The findings from a randomized clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson ...

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What a Practice Analysis May Reveal About the Health of Your Practice

Cleveland Heartlab — Fri, 22 May 2015 14:16:55 +0000

Every day, about 2,150 Americans die from heart disease, stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD)–one every 40 seconds, according to “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics–2015 Update: A Report from the American Heart Association.” CVD remains the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. These are frightening statistics. Cleveland ...

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Inflammation Testing Could Prevent 10% of Heart Attacks and Strokes, Saving $187 Million, Study Finds

Cleveland Heartlab — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:31:39 +0000

A new peer-reviewed study model published in the Journal of Medical Economics, suggests that thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be avoided–and millions of dollars in healthcare costs saved–by using inflammation testing to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment. The study model analyzed the clinical and financial impact of adding Cleveland HeartLab’s (CHL) inflammation testing to standard cholesterol screening. ...

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