Monday, June 21, 2010

About Heart Disease: Should You Take Prophylactic Aspirin?

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From Richard N. Fogoros, M.D., your Guide to Heart Disease
This week: Should you be taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks? And: Surprising news about the heart risks of NSAIDs.

Should You Take Prophylactic Aspirin?
Aspirin, that commonly-used pain reliever and anti-inflammatory drug, can be useful in reducing the risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack (myocardial infarction) and stroke. But you should consider... Read more

NSAIDs And Cardiac Risk - Is Voltaren The Worst Of All?
As anyone who has been reading the papers for the last few years knows, COX-2 drugs - a group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used to treat inflammation and pain... Read more

Being Overweight Might Not Be So Bad For Older People
Recently, investigators from Australia reported that among men and women between the ages of 70 and 75, those whose BMI was in the "overweight" range had lower mortality than those... Read more

Living with Heart Failure
Heart failure - the causes, the treatment, and what you can do to improve your outcome.

 


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