Researchers report that mortality rates for coronary heart disease in young adults are levelling off, and in women, they have even risen, bucking a 2-decade long trend towards declining death rates. Medscape Medical News
The new oral anticoagulant showed superior efficacy compared with the US-approved dosing regimen of enoxaparin in preventing VTE in patients who had undergone total-knee-replacement surgery. Heartwire
Most of the biologically inert nitrate consumed in beets and green vegetables is excreted in the urine, but researchers believe nitrates in saliva are converted into nitrite by bacteria on the tongue, which in turn helps lower blood pressure and improve endothelial function. Heartwire
AHA 2007: Coronary heart disease is almost an epidemic, but fortunately statin therapy is largely very effective and safe -- except that many patients stop taking their prescribed statin. Who and why? Medscape Cardiology
