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New discoveries from Harvard and Baylor get to the heart of cardiovascular disease
July 6th, 2008
Even if you eat right and exercise regularly, chances are high that you'll still die of a heart attack or stroke. But thanks to new findings by researchers from Harvard and Baylor, the odds may finally shift in your favor. Two unrelated studies recently published online in The FASEB Journal describe findings on atherosclerosis that have the potential to save millions of lives. Both studies involved experiments in mice, but cover biological processes present in humans. In the first, scientists from Harvard explain how the absence of a single protein, called "ROCK1," profoundly reduces inflammation in the walls of blood vessels provoked by fatty...
Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2008-07-06)
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