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Article: Heart disease and free radicals
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- New Straits Times
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- May 16, 2000
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New Straits Times
05-16-2000
Heart disease and free radicals
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Health
Memo: (STF) - Heart disease remains the biggest killer of middle-aged men and women in the US and other developed countries.
IF you think that heart attacks only happen to men and women who are overweight, stressed out and overeat, then you are sadly mistaken. Anyone, men or women, young or old, can suffer a heart attack if he/she does not take care.
However, statistics show that four times as many men compared to women suffer from coronary heart disease. It also tends to affect more men earlier in life than women; coronary heart disease is only more common in women after menopause.
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