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...highway. People who breathed in polluted air registered higher blood-pressure readings a short time after exposure, compared with those who breathed filtered air, and their blood vessels showed impairment as long as 24 hours later. Such prolonged hypertension is a known risk factor for both heart disease and stroke. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...findings, published in the journal Hypertension, offers a potentially new understanding of how pollutants can affect the heart. While previous studies have linked bad air - specifically, air laden with fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter - with higher rates of heart disease and stroke, it wasn't clear exactly how the particulates did their damage. Nor was it clear which of the many components of urban air were the most hazardous - the fine particulates from burning fossil fuels that come from exhaust pipes, or the ozone gases that permeate most densely packed city streets...
...sudden flurry of diplomatic activity from the North prompts many North Korea watchers, both inside and outside government, to conclude tentatively that Kim Jong Il has made a better recovery from a stroke he reportedly suffered a year ago. They attribute the belligerence in the first eight months of this year to a regime whose top leadership seemed suddenly vulnerable. But Kim and his allies have apparently successfully installed Kim Jong Un, Kim's youngest son, as his likely successor. In fact, reports from some nongovernmental organizations operating in the North say that a public propaganda campaign promoting Jong...
...answered that question yet." Recent studies suggest that using blood-sugar-controlling medication even among the 57 million Americans who have prediabetes - meaning they have elevated, but not dangerously high blood sugar and are at very high risk of developing diabetes - may prevent the development of heart disease and stroke...
Many religious Israelis believe that Olmert's woes are divine punishment for his reneging on his promise never to divide Jerusalem. According to one poll, more than a quarter of all Israelis and a majority of the religious ones believe that Ariel Sharon's massive stroke in January 2006 was punishment for ordering Israel's withdrawal from Gush Katif in Gaza in 2005 and considering a Palestinian state. "No question about it," Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, a leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement in Israel told TIME. "He fought against the people of Israel, against the land of Israel, against...