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...also possible that plaques--whether in the main coronary arteries or the smaller vessels--behave differently in women. Unlike men, women tend to distribute all the "garbage" associated with atherosclerosis--such as saturated fat and oxidized waste products--more evenly throughout the arteries. The process is analogous to the way men and women gain weight, says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "When men get fat, it all goes to their belly," she says. "When women get fat, they tend to get fat all over--fat at the ankles, fat in the sides...
...kind of plaque that can become unstable and rupture," says Dr. Robert Bonow of the American Heart Association. "But the surface has become eroded, exposing the material beneath the surface to the blood, which causes blood clots. And it turns out that the women who have this plaque erosion tend to be women who smoked." Those clots can travel through the bloodstream, wreaking havoc in the heart or the brain...
...more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling that they have a bad case of indigestion, they often can't believe that their symptoms are cardiac in origin. Equally important, their doctors often don't believe it either. Doctors tend to put off ordering necessary tests for women having a heart attack or fail to treat them aggressively enough...
...cruises tend to be upscale--the Big Band trip set the Brandmeiers back $8,000--but can sell out six months in advance of sailing. They seem to have found a ready market among mature travelers. "Our passengers in their 50s and 60s and beyond have raised their kids and are now looking to fill the next 25 to 30 years of their lives with interests that they had no time to pursue in the past," says Deborah Natansohn, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Cunard Line. The company's Queen Elizabeth 2 is offering cruises this year...
...week in the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that ALS sufferers are more likely to have chromosomal abnormalities. Guariniello told Time that players who get ALS had a higher ratio of leg injuries, perhaps implicating certain treatments. Even painkillers may be a risk, he says. "We tend to think it's a combination of smaller factors that accumulate," adds Cupid. "The trouble is that these studies are dotted all around the world, and it's hard to compare the data." When Guido Vincenzi played in the 1950s and '60s, there were often no substitutes on hand...