“Our results lend support to the importance of fish and omega-3 consumption as part of a healthy diet,” said senior study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, in Boston. “At a time when some but not other trials of fish oil supplementation have shown […]
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WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans with a common heart rhythm disorder are at higher risk than whites for serious heart complications and death, a new study finds. The disorder, called atrial fibrillation, affects about 1 percent of American adults and more than 5 percent of those 65 and older. Atrial fibrillation […]
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Diabetes Ups Risk of Heart Attack Death
by WebMD June 27, 2016FRIDAY, June 24, 2016 (HealthDay News) — People with diabetes are much more likely to die after a heart attack than people without the blood sugar condition, a new study finds. Researchers included 700,000 people in the study. All of them were hospitalized with a heart attack between January 2003 and June 2013. About 121,000 […]