Tag Archives: Aging-associated diseases

A Woman’s Guide To Stroke Prevention

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A new guideline published in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke focuses on preventing stroke in the more stroke-prone sex: Women. Though the risk factors for stroke are in large part...

25 Year-Blood Pressure Trajectory Predicts Heart Risk

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Everyone knows that blood pressure is one of the most important measurements of cardiovascular risk. Less well known is that most studies of blood pressure have relied on single or isolated...

Problems Continue Despite Gains In Oral Anticoagulant Use

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Although significant progress has been made in recent years, a new survey from the European Society of Cardiology finds that there are still too many atrial fibrillation patients who are not taking...

Merck’s Vorapaxar Gets Positive FDA Review

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A few years ago a novel antiplatelet agent from Merck seemed all but dead. Vorapaxar, a thrombin receptor antagonist, was widely thought to have no future after unacceptably high serious bleeding...