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                    [Title] => Calcium supplements raise CVD mortality in men
                    [Summary] => 

Taking calcium supplements appears to raise the risk of death from cardiovascular disease among men but not women, a study has shown.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 718647 [Title] => Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease [Summary] =>

Evidence supporting primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become more robust and nuanced.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 383341 [Title] => ADA, AHA unite to encourage CVD risk factor screening [Summary] => Physicians are strongly advised to assess patients for their global risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to a "call to action" from the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286313 [Title] => The growing burden of atherothrombosis [Summary] => Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the Philippines. In 2001, according to the Department of Health, CVD was responsible for 28 percent of all deaths among Filipinos.

As a consequence, CVD exerts a huge and growing burden on the country’s limited resources for health services as well as on the patients and their families, many of whom pay medical services out-of-pocket.

Atherothrombosis, a progressive and life-threatening disease affecting the arteries throughout the body, is responsible for the majority of CVD cases.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279840 [Title] => A heart-to-heart talk with women [Summary] => A woman’s heart is said to be, figuratively speaking, very resilient. It can take in a lot of heartaches, disappointments, hurts, betrayals and all sorts of emotional torture imaginable — and survive. Ask any wife who has seen her soldier husband killed in battle, or a mother who has witnessed her conjoined twin babies take their last breath. On the physical level, however, that same heart is not anywhere near invincible and is posing a serious threat to countless women’s lives.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479731 [AuthorName] => Lynette Lee Corporal [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 224399 [Title] => Trial seeks optimum hypertension mg’t [Summary] => The growth in the medical understanding of heart disease that has been achieved with well-designed researches and clinical trials is one of the greatest achievements in medical history. Medical researchers all over the world have slowly but continuously provided the answers to many questions on heart-related diseases.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204464 [Title] => Older women more prone to CVD deaths [Summary] => Do you know that cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims the lives of more women than the 16 next common causes of death in women combined?

Although many women think that their greatest health problem is breast cancer, CVD remains to be the first cause of mortality among women. It is estimated that 500,000 women die each year because of CVD, exceeding the number of deaths because of other causes, including all forms of cancer.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440636 [AuthorName] => Khristine Estrada [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147969 [Title] => Cholesterol therapy lowers healthcare costs among diabetic sufferers [Summary] => A recent report shows that diabetic patients taking cholesterol controlling drug significantly reduced the length and cost of hospitalization due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). The analysis from the landmark Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) is published in Diabetes Care.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1222905 [AuthorName] => Chat Alejandro [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 147159 [Title] => Cholesterol therapy lowers healthcare costs among diabetic sufferers [Summary] => A recent report shows that diabetic patients taking cholesterol controlling drug significantly reduced the length and cost of hospitalization due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). The analysis from the landmark Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) is published in Diabetes Care.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1222905 [AuthorName] => Chat Alejandro [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146350 [Title] => Cholesterol therapy lowers healthcare costs among diabetic sufferers [Summary] => A recent report shows that diabetic patients taking cholesterol controlling drug significantly reduced the length and cost of hospitalization due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). The analysis from the landmark Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) is published in Diabetes Care.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1222905 [AuthorName] => Chat Alejandro [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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