CIHR Research: INTERHEART: Nine Factors That Could Save Your Life

INTERHEART: nine factors that could save your life.

No matter where you live, how old you are or what you look like, health researchers have recently discovered that 90% of the most common cardiovascular event, the first heart attack (myocardial infarction), can be attributed to nine modifiable risk factors. The risk factors include: cigarette smoking, an abnormal ratio of blood lipids, high blood pressure, diabetes, abdominal obesity, stress, a...

Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

How new heart-scanning technology could save your life.

http://ww ckelma rol was just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a gist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old ed nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the n nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed o...

Can Competition Save Your Life?

The life you save may be your own.

1953 Like much of Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction, ‘‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’’ is set in the American South and contains characters whose most notable feature seems to be their ordinariness. Through imagery, dialogue, and moments of revelation, O’Connor explores the themes of morality and religion, both frequent concerns in her work. The story evoked critical praise upon its publica...