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Marathon heart-attack deaths rise

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 2:25pm

Runners suffered heart attacks in the Boston Marathon in April, the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Marathon in February, the New York and Philadelphia marathons last November and the Chicago Marathon last October. These incidents sparked renewed interest in possible links between distance running and heart failure.

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Human resources director John Chadwick poses for a portrait at his office at Albion Laboratories in Clearfield on March 16. Chadwich, who has Type 1 diabetes and had a heart attack in 2007, is participating in a five-year study with Optimum Clinical Research in Salt Lake City to develop a medication that may reduce inflammation and stress by controlling certain proteins in the blood.

Heart patients sought for study

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 10:41pm

Some people who seem to be the picture of good health still have heart attacks. A Salt Lake City company is trying to learn why and is looking for more heart attack patients to include in its research.

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Muamba's heart stopped beating for 78 minutes

Rob Harris The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 1:55pm

LONDON -- Fabrice Muamba's heart stopped beating for 78 minutes and "in effect, he was dead in that time," Bolton's team doctor said Wednesday.

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In a March 2, 2012 photo, Janet Batten holds her cat Noah outside her Toms Brook home. Batten credits her huge tabby with detecting an aneurysm in her brain. (AP Photo/Northern Virginia Daily, Rich Cooley)

Cat purring may bring down blood pressure in humans

William Hageman Chicago Tribune

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 10:39am

We know that pets are beneficial to our health -- they can lower a person's blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and provide opportunities for exercise and socialization.

In some cases, the source of the benefits is obvious. You walk a dog for two miles, you'll be in better shape. But some of the reported benefits are baffling.

A 10-year study at the University of Minnesota Stroke Center found that cat owners were 40 percent less likely to have heart attacks than non-cat owners.

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Want to stop smoking? Attend free workshop in South Ogden

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:27pm

SOUTH OGDEN — To celebrate National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, the Pulmonary Wellness Center is sponsoring a free stop-smoking workshop for the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Wednesday at 5974 Fashion Pointe Drive.

The workshop will include information on the risks of smoking and offer a variety of tips and techniques on how to quit.

Information will also be available about new nicotine patches.

For more information, call Dawn or Troy at 801-479-9644.

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Customer at Vegas’ Heart Attack Grill suffers heart attack

Tiffany Hsu Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 6:55pm

LAS VEGAS — In one of the more unfortunate cases of a company living up to its name, a man dining at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas had exactly what was on the menu: a heart attack.

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Cold weather can raise risk for heart attacks

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 4:55pm

OGDEN -- The dropping thermometer just might drop you to your knees with health problems, experts say, especially when it comes to your ticker.

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In this Jan. 13, 2012 photo, heart patient Tammy Collins, right, goes through her cardio rehabiltaion workout while being monitored by nurse Julie Walsh at The Ohio State University CarePoint East facility in Columbus, Ohio. After suffering a heart attack and then healing she was apprehensive about how to safely return to her sex life. The American Heart Association says having sex only slightly increase the chance for having a heart attack. And that's true for patients with and without heart disease. (AP Photo/Mike Munden)

Sex safe for most heart patients

Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 5:04pm

CHICAGO -- Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you're healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love life.

That advice from a leading doctors' group on Thursday addresses one of the most pressing, least discussed issues facing survivors of heart attacks and other heart patients.

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Report: Utah ranks No. 7 in overall health

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 7:29am

OGDEN -- Utah currently ranks seventh in the nation when it comes to the overall health of its residents, the same spot it held in last year's rankings.

The 22nd annual America's Health Rankings shows Utahns have a lower prevalence of smoking, binge drinking and obesity than other states. In addition, the state has a low rate of preventable hospitalizations, low rates of cancer deaths, cardiovascular deaths, infant mortality and adult diabetes.

The report shows a 10 percent drop in preventable re-hospitalizations among Medicare patients for illnesses such as pneumonia, asthma, congestive heart disease and diabetes.

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Teen heart attacks blamed on smoking spice

Shari Roan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 4:29pm

Three teenagers in Texas appear to have had heart attacks caused by smoking synthetic marijuana, doctors reported this week.

While smoking marijuana is known to affect the heart, such as by increasing the heart rate, synthetic pot -- known as K2 or Spice -- may represent an additional risk. These drugs contain synthetic cannabinoids and have become popular among illicit drug users because they do not show up on toxicology screens.

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Stricken driver is resuscitated by driver he had helped

Paul Walsh Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 4:38pm

A Canadian motorist who suffered cardiac arrest while driving in western Wisconsin is probably alive today because of a good deed he had done for a stranger along the interstate just a few minutes earlier.

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New global killers: heart, lung disease and cancer

Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 7:57am

What’s killing us? For decades, global health leaders have focused on diseases that can spread — AIDS, tuberculosis, new flu bugs. They pushed for vaccines, better treatments and other ways to control germs that were only a plane ride away from seeding outbreaks anywhere in the world.

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