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High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can go undetected and lead to death.
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A Columbia cardiologist explains everything you want to know about your heart and how to keep it healthy.
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Columbia surgeons performed the first pediatric total artificial heart surgery in the Northeast.
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People exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation have an extra, but modest, risk of developing heart disease during their lifetime, according to a new study.
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- February 12, 2013
Counter to prevailing notions, researchers found that “living in the barrio or ethnically dense communities isn’t always bad for your health."
- February 6, 2013
Women with the greatest risk of having a heart attack know the least about heart attack symptoms, according to a new study.
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- February 1, 2013
Experts in behavioral medicine at P&S searched the literature to uncover what is really known about stress and heart disease.
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- December 21, 2012
New study may help inform the design of anti-atherosclerosis vaccines
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- December 17, 2012
A new meta-analysis of 6 studies (120,000 people) demonstrates that stress may help predict future risk of heart disease or death from heart disease.
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- October 8, 2012
New link found between high-fat diet and atherosclerosis
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CNNSeptember 7, 2012Heart attacks in the U.S. are uncommon among people younger than 55, but the numbers could rise because obesity is a growing problem, said Dr. Lee Goldman.
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- August 6, 2012
The observed association between periodontitis and atherosclerotic vascular disease cannot be attributed solely to the recognized common risk factors.
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