Word: stroke
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...amino acid, produced in the body, has been implicated as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease--maybe even more important than LDL, or "bad cholesterol." According to many studies, elevated homocysteine levels can triple the chance that you'll get heart disease and significantly increase your risk of stroke--and maybe of Alzheimer's disease as well. Researchers even have a plausible explanation: homocysteine seems to damage the internal walls of the arteries--a major source of cardiovascular problems...
...Clarke of Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, has deduced that homocysteine is a risk factor--but not a huge one, at least for most healthy people. The latest results say that reducing homocysteine levels in the blood 25% lessens the risk of heart disease 10% and the risk of stroke 19%--not bad, but not fabulous either...
Though the Crimson may have received a stroke of bad luck at a crucial moment, it failed to capitalize on its many opportunities. Harvard outshot BC 20-10 and received 12 penalty corners to the Eagles?...
Princeton took top honors, narrowly defeating second place Brown by one stroke, 467-468. The Tigers’ Avery Kiser took home top individual honors with a score...
...their room, trucking sand into the dorm and blowing up an inflatable pool. The party ended with a splash when too many students jumped into the pool and the floor fell through. When the Cabot dining hall flooded in the 1980s, students dove in and practiced the breast stroke...