Positive Health Online

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OLSSON and YUAN, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden studied four antioxidant treatment modalities - probucol, beta-carotene, vitamin E and anti-iron - against atherosclerosi1

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MCGRADY, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo USA writes that dysregulation in blood pressure control can occur as a result of psychological stress in either the hypertensive or

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WATANABE and colleagues, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Department of Medicine, Daini Hospital, Japan write that autogenic training, a method of self-hypnosis, lowers the extent of within-day change of systolic1

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JEPPESEN and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Stanford University of Medicine, CA USA evaluated the effects of variations in dietary carbohydrate and fat upon a number of parameters of carbohydrate and lipoprotein metabolism in

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KARDINAAL and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist the Netherlands studied the association between selenium status and risk of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). @m: T1

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CAMARGO and colleagues, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA USA camargoc@al.mgh.harvard.edu write that moderate alcohol consumption decreases the risk of coronary heart disease, but that its effect 1

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SANTOS and colleagues, Department of Physiology, Unviersity of Granada, Spain studied the effects of dietary fish oil upon fatty acid composition of red cell membrane in people with coronary he1

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ERNST and WHITE, Department of Complementary Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Exeter, UK reviewed the literature (25 references) regarding the use of acupuncture as an useful additi1

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COLLINS and RICE, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor USA studied the effects of progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery upon psychological and physiological outcomes

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MOSER and colleagues, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA write that advanced heart failure involves the activation of the sympathetic nervous and intense vasoconstriction. Conditions with similar physiological features have been trea1

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CONQUER and HOLUB, Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, Universityof Guelph, Ontario Canada conducted a double-blind study with healthy vegetarian subjects in order to study the effect of dieta1

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KUCHARSKA and colleagues, Farmakobiochemicke laboratorium III, internej klinky Lekarskej fakulty Unvierzity Komenskeho v Bratislave, Slovakia write that pathobiochemical mechanisms involved in the rejection of transplanted hearts are n1

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LARKIN and ZAYFERT, Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown USA studied the use of anger management training with hypertensive patients. @m:METHODS: 13 essential hypertensive pat1

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AZEN and colleagues, Statistical Consultation and Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles USA write that experimental, epidemiological and clinical evidence is accumulating which demonstrates an associat1

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TEMPLE, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada reviews (65 references) the role of diet and fat in the prevention and reversal of coronary heart disease (CHD). The author writes that vigorous dietary in1

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PIETINEN and colleagues, Department of Nutrition, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Pirjo.Pietinen ktl.fi. studied the relationship between dietary fibre and coronary heart disease i1

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CHAPPELL and JANSON, Wright State School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio USA write that ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) chelation therapy has been used for decades in the treatment of vascular disease,

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LIANG and colleagues, Peking Union Medical College, Union Hospital, Beijing studied the relationship of lipid peroxides in coronary heart disease, in patients with and without diabetes, and their Syndrome in Ch1

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LYNCH and colleagues, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts USA review (165 references) the current scientific knowledge regarding the role of vitamin C in the prevention of atherosclerosis

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KAUL and colleagues, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA, have reviewed (100 references) the literature on the use of alpha-tocopherol (Vitamin E) in the prevent1

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