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Anti-inflammatory drugs and heart disease
Aspirin: why are so many people taking it?
Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs
Cholesterol: what about it?
Cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke
Compliance with medication for blood pressure and cholesterol control
Exercise stress test
Heart attack: how does it occur?
Heart disease and psychological depression
Heart disease, cancer and hormone replacement therapy
Heart failure - what is it?
Hypertension: high blood pressure, not nervous tension
The metabolic syndrome: a modern disorder of epidemic proportions
On ageing
Personality and heart disease
Physical activity and heart disease
Returning to work after cardiac illness
Smoking, heart disease and death
Stress and heart disease
Surgical and catheter treaments for coronary heart disease: revascularisation
Understanding heart disease - risk factors
Understanding heart disease - no apparent risk factors
What are coronary artery stents and how are they used?
Warfarin: an anticoagulant or "blood thinner"
 
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