News -07-29-08 Preventing Sudden Death in Young Athletes (USA Today) "Since 1985, the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation has collected information about more than 600 sudden deaths in young athletes, mostly due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart muscle that can block blood flow." "One useful addition to the routine sports physical examination would be a 5-minute echocardiogram, which uses ultrasound to look at the heart, University of Wisconsin researchers write in the July issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography." 07-08 Papers Heart Pill Could Save Millions (CBS News) "A three-in-one pill being developed to treat heart disease could save millions, particularly in developing countries where most heart attacks occur, experts said Monday at the World Congress of Cardiology." 09-06 Lowering Cholesterol Naturally (Huffington Post) "What do you think of conventional medicine's tendency to prescribe medications over dietary and lifestyle change for chronic health conditions?" 01-11 New Heart Attack Tests Recommended (CBS News) "It's time to change the way doctors predict heart attacks and stroke, says a group of prominent cardiologists. They call for routine use of CT scans to directly measure artery-clogging plaque, or ultrasounds to directly measure narrowing of the arteries." According to Naghavi, " 'For the very first time in heart medicine, we now have a test that can show someone has up to a 65-fold increased risk of a heart attack,' he says. 'With the traditional risk factors, the biggest risk is high cholesterol, which has only up to 4.5-fold increased risk. So you can see how much of a jump in prediction we get from this.' ” 07-06 Study: 27,000 Heart Attacks Associated Vioxx (USA Today) "The study, an analysis of a database of 1.4 million Kaiser Permanente members, found that those who took Vioxx were more likely to suffer a heart attack or sudden cardiac death than those who took Celebrex, Vioxx's main rival. Based on their findings, Graham and his collaborators linked Vioxx to more than 27,000 heart attacks or sudden cardiac deaths nationwide from the time it came on the market in 1999 through 2003." 11-04 Worst Trans Fat Foods (MSNBC Health News) "According to a report published in April by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Wageningen University, eliminating trans fats from the U.S. food supply could prevent between 6 percent and 19 percent of heart attacks and related deaths each year." "Saturated fats raise the bad cholesterol, or LDL, and the good, HDL, but trans fats perform the double whammy of raising bad and lowering good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol causes plaque to build up in and eventually clog arteries." 01-07 Research C-Reactive Protein to Diagnose Heart Attack Risk (P-S-L Consulting Group) Provides information on a new method of assessing risk for heart attacks. 10-00

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