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Is Economy Class Air Travel Linked To Blood Clot Risk? Apparently Not "Economy Class Syndrome" is a myth, your risk of developing a blood clot during a long-distance economy trip by plane is not higher than in first class, researchers report in an article published in Chest... News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Feb. 7 2012 1... Rare Mutations May Help Explain Aneurysm In High-Risk Families An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012... Clopidogrel With Aspirin Doesn't Prevent More Small Strokes, May Increase Risk Of Bleeding, Death The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012... For Atrial Fibrillation Patients, Rivaroxaban Has Less Risk Of Brain Bleeding In Patients At High Risk For Stroke For patients with a type of irregular heart beat called atrial fibrillation (AF), a new anti-clotting drug might be better at preventing clot-related strokes while minimizing the risk of causing a bleeding stroke. The research was presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012... Elevated Glucose Associated With Undetected Heart Damage A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes... Among Moderate Drinkers, The Effect Of Occasional Binge Drinking On Heart Disease And Mortality Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease (IHD) and most studies have found an increase of coronary risk among binge drinkers... Heartbeat Vibrations Power Pacemakers Though pacemakers require only small amounts of energy (about 1 millionth of a Watt), their batteries have to be replaced periodically, which means multiple surgeries for patients... Erratic Heart Rhythm May Account For Some Unexplained Strokes Occasional erratic heart rhythms appear to cause about one-fifth of strokes for which a cause is not readily established, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. About one-third of survivors leave the hospital with the cause of their stroke still undetermined... Post-Liver Transplantation Survival Outcomes - Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Helps Predict According to a study in the February edition of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival after liver transplantation...

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