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  • They may also be useful in treating angina because they lower the heart muscle's demand for oxygen - angina pectoris occurs when the heart's demand for oxygen is greater than the supply. high blood pressure (hypertension) because their effects on blood vessels lowers blood pressure.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • So, when 16, 17 and 18 year-olds have had adult onset diabetes already for a decade or more, shouldn't we expect to start seeing them in emergency rooms with angina pectoris and myocardial infarction?

    David Katz, M.D.: Rising Rate Of Youth Strokes: Why It Was Predictable M.D. David Katz 2011

  • Erstens handelt es sich um Menschen mit schweren Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen: Herzinsuffizienz, Angina pectoris, Erkrankungen des Gehirns Verkehr (Schmerzen im Herzen mit Last fizichekoy oder allein, Gedachtnis und geistige Leistungsfahigkeit).

    Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been 2008

  • Erstens handelt es sich um Menschen mit schweren Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen: Herzinsuffizienz, Angina pectoris, Erkrankungen des Gehirns Verkehr (Schmerzen im Herzen mit Last fizichekoy oder allein, Gedachtnis und geistige Leistungsfahigkeit).

    Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been 2008

  • Iudexque cum post aderis rimari facta pectoris, reddens vicem pro abditis iustisque regnum pro bonis

    Verbum Supernum Prodiens bls 2009

  • He suffered from high blood pressure, emphysema, atherosclerosis, angina pectoris.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Make Obama’s Third Term Possible”: 2009

  • She died of angina pectoris on the eve of Passover, 1969, and was buried on the Mount of Olives, alongside her husband and her father.

    Shoshana Persitz. 2009

  • The present trial was designed to evaluate the effect of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin on mortality and morbidity in patients with coronary heart disease CHD. 4444 patients with angina pectoris or previous myocardial infarction and serum cholesterol 5.5-8.0 mmol/L on a lipid-lowering diet were randomised to double-blind treatment with simvastatin or placebo.

    More statin madness | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • "Pectus pectoris ut diligo est in perpetuum tener."

    Translate your personal motto into Latin Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • A study published in Clinical Psychology Review in 1993 concludes that several types of placebos are effective in treating illnesses such as stomach ulcers, angina pectoris and herpes 70 percent of the time.

    Ode Magazine - The placebo effect is not all in your mind William Harryman 2009

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