21. They protect themselves, protect their hearts, with little strategies of detachment. 22. What is helping protect their hearts? 23. Alcohol protects the heart mainly by acting on platelets in the blood to prevent clotting, he found. 24. Although ACE inhibitors also block aldosterone, it now appears they do so poorly, and Aldactone protects the heart by stopping even more of the hormone. 25. Although it still protects the heart, excess drinking raises the danger of cancers and liver disease. 26. Carvedilol protects the heart by blocking the effects of a stress hormone that causes the muscle to deteriorate, Packer said. 27. During the Gulf War, Iraq dismantled key factories, refineries and other institutions to protect the heart of its infrastructure. 28. Lipshultz said the findings could lead to the development of a vaccine to protect the heart against adenoviruses. 29. The heart attack survivor thought taking high-dose Vitamin E with his medicine would better protect his heart, until he began bleeding. 30. The popular belief that a glass of red wine protects the heart has finally been validated in the laboratory. |