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Research Updates: heart
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Issue 150
MCKENNEY and SICA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, jmckenney@ncrinc.net, have reviewed (42 references) n-3 fatty acids for the treatment of high levels of triglycerides in the blood (1
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Issue 149
HOZAWA and colleagues, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA, have investigat1
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Issue 149
KWAIJTAAL and co-workers, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Maastricht, P. Debeyeplein 25, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands, martijnkwaijtaal@gmail.com, have1
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Issue 149
PAPPARELLA and colleagues, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, I-35128 Padua, Italy, have found that vitamin C prevents anti-HIV medication-related high blood pressure in rats.
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Issue 149
SINGH and others, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA, have studied the effects of vitamin E in people at risk from coronary artery disease.
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Issue 148
CARRERO and co-authors, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Granada, and Service of Cardiology, University San Cecilio Hospital, Granada, Spain, have provided further evidence for the benefits of n-3 fatty acids for the card1
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Issue 148
PAGE and others, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0530, Stephen.Page@uc.edu, have conducted a randomized controlled tri1
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Issue 147
HARRIS and colleagues, Sanford Research and School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, bill.harris@usd.edu, have studied the links between n-3 fatty acids, trans-fatty 1
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Issue 146
HE and co-authors, Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, Wuhan, Hubei, China, have studied a genetic risk factor for heart disease and its association with smoking and vitamin E.
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Issue 146
LI and others, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan, have used acupressure to improve the condition of patients suffering from impaired blood flow in1
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Issue 146
ROBERTSON and co-workers, ENT Department, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK, have conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial of homoeopathic arnica for pain control after surgery.
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Issue 144
TRABER, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, maret.traber@oregonstate.edu, has reviewed (92 references) heart disease and vitamin supplementation. <1
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Issue 143
CARRERO and co-authors, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Granada, and Service of Cardiology, University San Cecilio Hospital, Granada, Spain, have published a study on the role of fish oil in rehabilitation after heart di1
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Issue 143
HAYDEN and others, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, khayden@duke.edu, present the Cache county study on vitamin E and the risk of death from cardiov1
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Issue 141
ANDERSEN and co-workers, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway, have found an association between body mass index and the levels of carotenoids in young adults.
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Issue 141
ENGELHARD and others, Hypertension Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Centre, Ben Gurion, University of the Negev, 84101 Beer Sheva, Israel, have conducted a trial of antioxidants from tomato extract for high blood pressure.
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Issue 141
ENGLER and ENGLER, Dept. of Physiological Nursing, University of California-San Francisco, 2 Koret Way, San Francisco, CA 94143-0610, USA, marguerite.engler@nursing.ucsf.edu, have reviewed (67 references) the role1
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Issue 141
MORGAN and colleagues, Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, have conducted further studies of the connection between n-3 fatty acids and heart disease.
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Issue 140
CHEN and others, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, have studied the effects of soya protein on the fat profile of people with elevated cholesterol.
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Issue 140
PAUL-LABRADOR and colleagues, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 90048, USA, have investigated the effect of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on heart disease.