| Rep. Blumer dies from apparent heart attack while driving | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:58:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | State Rep. Deborah Blumer died Friday while driving, apparently after suffering a heart attack, authorities said. Blumer, 64, of Framingham, was found by police after her 2004 Acura drove off a road and struck a guardrail at about 10:30 a.m., police said. An officer who happened to be working nearby ran to the scene and began administering CPR, and a second officer used a defibrillator, Framingham police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said. But Blumer remained unconscious and was unresponsive when she was taken to MetroWest Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 11:35 a.m., hospital spokeswoman Beth Donnelly said. Blumer, a Democrat, had been running unopposed for a fourth term representing the Sixth Middlesex District. "Rep.... | |
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| | | Does coffee raise heart attack risk? | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 5:08:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE QUESTION: Sexual activity, marijuana use, physical exertion and anger all are capable of triggering a heart attack in people with coronary artery disease. Should coffee drinking be added to the list? THIS STUDY analyzed the coffee consumption habits of 503 heart attack survivors. Most participants reported drinking an average of two to three cups of coffee a day; all coffee consumed was caffeinated, and nearly all was filtered. Overall, drinking at least one cup of coffee increased the risk of having a heart attack within an hour by 49 percent, compared with the individuals' risk at other times. However, among people considered occasional coffee drinkers (less than one cup a day), having a cup of coffee raised their risk four-fold, whereas heavy coffee drinkers (more than four cups a day) had no increased risk.... | |
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| | | Rural heart attack rates 'disturbing' | | Posted Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:59:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | A disturbing number of rural Australians die from heart attacks while waiting for help, but medics say more ambulances are not the solution. Mortality rates for heart disease in rural areas are 30 per cent higher in men and 21 per cent higher in women than for those in urban areas, Victorian research has found. Researchers looked at 1,790 people who had suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to compare survival rates in rural and urban areas. They found that urban cardiac arrest patients - those in cities and towns - were much more likely to survive, due mostly to a difference in ambulance response times. Response times averaged eight minutes in urban areas compared with 14 minutes in non-urban areas. But it was impractical to substantially reduce response times in rural areas, said study leader Paul Jennings, clinical educator at Rural Ambulance Victoria.... | |
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| | | DeCode seeks clearance for new heart attack prevention trial | | Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:57:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | DeCode Genetics has submitted an investigational new drug application to the FDA for DG051, the company's follow-on investigational compound for the prevention of heart attack. DG051 is a novel small-molecule inhibitor of leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H), the protein made by one of the genes in the leukotriene pathway DeCode has linked to risk of heart attack. .... | |
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