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Does Viagra Cause Heart Attacks? Is Testosterone Lowered By Marriage?

(Submitted by: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.)

Whats the latest on whether Viagra causes heart attacks?At the recent American College of Cardiology meetings, doctors from Italy reported that Viagra may help prevent heart attacks in diabetics. After one week of taking Viagra daily, ... Read article

Surviving Heart Attacks

(Submitted by: Robert Thatcher)

Over one million Americans suffer heart attack every year and from this number comes some 460,000 annual deaths. And 50% of these deaths dies an hour after the start of the symptoms of heart attack and were not able to make it to the hospital. ... Read article

Syndrome X Puts You at Risk for Heart Attacks and Diabetes

(Submitted by: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.)

Syndrome X describes people who have low blood levels of the good HDL cholesterol and high blood levels of triglycerides, which puts them at high risk for heart attacks. HDL cholesterol is called the good cholesterol because it carries ... Read article

How Diabetes Causes Heart Attacks

(Submitted by: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.)

A recent study from Washington University in St Louis may explain why more than 75 percent of diabetics die of heart disease (Journal for the American College of Cardiology, February 7, 2006). The heart muscle of diabetics uses a much ... Read article

Homocysteine Causes Heart Attacks and Birth Defects

(Submitted by: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.)

More than 10 percent of all heart attacks and most cases of a birth defect called spina bifida are caused by a buildup of a chemical called homocysteine.Proteins in your body are made up of 21 building blocks called amino acids. Of the 21, ... Read article


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