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Heart Disease News
Young People With Type 1 Diabetes At Risk For Heart Disease New research shows that adolescents and young adults with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes have thicker and stiffer carotid arteries, also known as atherosclerosis, a risk factor for heart attack and stroke in adults.	26 June 2011
Atrial Fibrillation: New Management Approaches For The 'new Epidemic' In Cardiovascular Disease Despite recent advances in the treatment of heart rhythm disturbances, mortality and morbidity rates associated withy atrial fibrillation (AF) remain "unacceptably high", according to a new report.	26 June 2011
Risk Of Heart Disease Increased By 'Lean Gene' Having a leaner body may not always mean you have a lower risk of heart disease, according to a new study. Researchers have identified a gene that lowers the amount of fat stored under your skin, but does not lower the amount of 'unseen' fat around your internal organs.	26 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News

New Computational Tool For Rapid Identification Of Disease-Causing Variations In The Human Genome Scientists from the University of Utah and Omicia, Inc., a privately held company developing tools to interpret personal genome sequences, have announced the publication in Genome Research of a new software tool called VAAST, the Variant Annotation, Analysis and Selection Tool, a probabilistic disease-causing mutation finder for individual human genomes.

26 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News

Common Drugs Linked To Cognitive Impairment And Possibly To Increased Risk Of Death A large, long-term study confirms that medications with anticholinergic activity, which include many drugs frequently taken by older adults, cause cognitive impairment. The research is also the first to identify a possible link between these drugs - which include over-the-counter and prescription sleep aids and incontinence treatments - and risk of death.

26 June 2011

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