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News items on 'Cardiovascular Disease'
Low dose radiation 'harms heart'
(BBC 23/10/2009)
Low doses of radiation can cause cardiovascular disease, according to work carried out by mathematicians at Imperial College. They have constructed a model which suggests that the risk would increase as the dose increases. Studies have shown that nuclear workers exposed to long-term doses of radiation have higher levels of heart disease. But experts said it was too early to draw such conclusions without the biological research to back it up.
(BBC 20/10/2008)
How do most people die? 'The Grim Reaper's road map', published today, analyses almost 15 million death records for the years 1981 to 2004, exposing the patterns of death in modern Britain.The authors have selected nine causes of death - cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory, infections, mental disorder, transport, suicide or undetermined, and homicide [maps included].
QRisk2 helps to predict risk of heart attacks
(eHealthInsider 26/06/2008)
Researchers have used anonymised GP records to develop a new method for assessing whether people are at risk from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which they claim will improve national diagnosis rates and better identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups.
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