Word: cardiac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson once again became the "Cardiac Kids" and started the kind of comeback which has pulled out so many wins for the squad this year...
What gives the songs their staying power is their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another...
When people have a heart attack today, they are likely to be given powerful drugs to dissolve the clots that block the flow of blood to the cardiac muscle. But the drugs are generally used only to buy time until invasive procedures can be performed. These include angiography, the injection of a material into the coronary arteries to identify by X ray the 1 patient in 6 apt to have another attack; and balloon angioplasty, the threading into a blocked artery of a catheter with a tiny balloon on the end that presses plaque against the artery wall and widens...
...hand, the higher the level of HDL, the more it may aid in counteracting the effects of the bad cholesterol. This is the view of Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the Framingham Heart Study, a major research project that for the past 40 years has been following the cardiac history of residents of Framingham, Mass. "A number of us," says Castelli, "feel we can do a much better job of predicting who is at risk of getting heart disease if we look at the LDL and the HDL together...
...salvaged something on a long, wet, sleety weekend," Harvard Coach John Wentzell said of Cambridge's Cardiac Kids...