...firefighters to help them better understand where they stand with their risk factors and how to reduce them.Cardiovascular disease is the biggest source of firefighter deaths in the United States. A study from 1995 to 2004 of 1,006 on-duty...

...job educating women, and women have to also understand that they have the same risk factors when it comes to cardiovascular disease as men."The disparity among counties also shows up in the 2013 Power Ratings of Georgia counties put out by...

...severe obesity that can increase their risk of cardiovascular disease, Litwin said. But younger, premenopausal women appear to be better protected against cardiovascular disease, at least up to menopause. Why that is, and...

...followed some subjects from childhood to young adulthood and provided key insights into the early development of cardiovascular disease and diabetes that was not thought possible early in life before that."We don't know how (the NIH cut...

...post-operative pain. Some of the older drugs stimulate both a g-protein pathway, which can be detrimental to cardiovascular disease, and a beta-arrestin pathway, which has the opposite effect and is protective, Kim's research found...

...classes. This led to the introduction of many medications used today, and has revolutionized the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Many of his contemporaries feel he should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in this...

...of how they respond on a test like this."The heart and lungs are closely linked in the body; insights into cardiovascular disease can also be gained, Johnson said."Anything that is going to happen in the lungs is eventually going to affect...

...and turned the Longhorns program into a national power, died early Wednesday at age 88 of complications from cardiovascular disease, school spokesman Bill Little said. Royal also had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.Royal didn't have...

...enrolling in 1959 and included 1 million people, established a clear link between smoking and lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. The second Cancer Prevention Study, which started in 1982 and eventually included a nutritional survey and...

...at risk for lung cancer and other respiratory diseases," he said.The particles have also been linked with cardiovascular disease, Mowery said."For people who are perhaps at a higher risk of a heart attack anyway, it can actually cause...