Posts Tagged ‘alcohol’

July 14th, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: July 14th

This week’s topics are leucocyte telomere length and the risk for CVD, and the association between alcohol and CVD.


April 3rd, 2014

Cardiovascular Disease Declines in Rich Countries but Grows Elsewhere

A new Global Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Atlas portrays a divided world where rich countries are gradually freeing themselves from the yoke of CVD but where many poor and middle-income countries are still struggling. Ischemic heart disease and stroke were the two biggest contributors to the global burden of disease in 2010, accounting for 5.2% and 4.1%, […]