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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Seven of the nation's leaders in cardiovascular science were honored for their outstanding accomplishments at the American Heart Association's...

Study Highlights: Wearable defibrillators can help save lives while patients wait for implantable devices. Almost 92 percent of patients with potentially lethal arrhythmias survived to...

Study Highlights: Taiwan study finds that patients who had professional tooth scraping and cleaning had reduced risks of heart attack and stroke. More frequent scraping/cleaning was...

Study Highlights: Women who experienced unwanted sexual activity as children or adolescents had a higher risks for heart attacks, heart disease and strokes as adults compared to women who...

Study Highlights: Heart failure patients who don't eat enough vitamin C-rich foods have higher levels of inflammation and a higher risk of cardiac complications and death. This is the first...

Study Highlights: Women who drank two or more sugar-sweetened beverages daily experienced increasing waist circumferences, developed high triglycerides, and a high risk for type 2...

Study Highlights: Less than 6 percent of doctors said they completely follow national sudden cardiac death screening guidelines during physicals for high school athletes. Many doctors and...

Study Highlights: The platelet inhibitor abciximab was no more effective in reducing death in STEMI heart attack patients when it was delivered directly into the blocked coronary artery than...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regardless of presentation date and time, all three abstracts will have the same embargo time at 8 a.m. ET, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. For more...

Study Highlights: Two anti-clotting treatments ― abciximab with heparin, or bivalirudin ― were similar in preventing death, subsequent heart attack or need for further...