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Are the Apollo astronauts experiencing heart disease at a higher than average rate?
The basic answer is: we don't know. If you look at the original paper, you will find table 2, which shows that the number of people in the Apollo Lunar Astronauts group was 7 (n=7). Of those, 43% (...
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Does the heart pump blood through arteries?
Your reasoning is faulty. You assume that the capillaries are a single tube of length 60,000 miles. In fact they are many tubes running in parallel, so the flow of blood is divided between parallel ...
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Did a CDC Study confirm a 13,200% increase in Autoimmune Heart Disease After Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines were administered?
Short Answer:
"13,200%" increase: Maybe? Leaves out key information.
Any increase: Yes. Multiple studies have shown an increase.
According to the study, the vast majority of patients ...
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Does sunflower oil reduce LDL ("bad") cholesterol more than olive oil?
According to the mentioned study review, when used instead of butter, sunflower oil was associated with greater reduction of total and LDL cholesterl than olive oil. No other blood parameters or ...
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How legit is this graph of heart disease and cancer vs unrefined plant foods?
The graph is incorrect.
I will just look at Hungary vs. Greece for now, but other counties' data are available at the same source.
Hungary.........Greece
Coronary ...
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Do 30% of seniors get a heart attack each year?
Not quite
In 2000-2001, 2010-2011, and 2012-2013, roughly 30% of deaths over 65 in the USA were due to heart disease (30.9, 30.5, and 29.8).
Source: CDC
Perhaps the advertisement simply ...
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Are the Apollo astronauts experiencing heart disease at a higher than average rate?
If the question is:
Are the Apollo astronauts experiencing heart disease at a higher than average rate?
The answer is possibly, but the data is not rock-solid.
Otherwise, if you ask if the ...
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Do 30% of seniors get a heart attack each year?
This doesn't even pass the smell test.
See any spot on that graph where 30% of people die in a year? Even at 85 which is the top of the graph you see less than half that rate.
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Root canals cause heart attacks?
There has been talk of link between gum disease and heart disease for quite some time. There is an article discussing how Streptococcus bacteria can migrate from the mouth to the heart here:
How ...
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Is cholesterol a significant factor in Heart Attacks?
It is not clear whether statin treatment is beneficial in a primary prevention setting, that is in people without prevalent CVD who are at relatively lower risk. The recent results of the JUPITER ...
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Can hickeys induce a heart attack / stroke?
There seem to be two cases where hickeys may have caused strokes.
One in 2010 in New Zealand and one in 2016 in Mexico.
The case from 2016 is probably too recent to be mentioned in any papers, but ...
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Root canals cause heart attacks?
According to current research, there is no definitive evidence that root canals lead to heart attacks or heart disease. However, the reverse may be true: research suggests that heart disease may lead ...
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis in younger men at a rate higher than the virus?
This is probably a (biased) extract from a study like this (Hippisley-Cox et al.), that did look at age groups specifically:
Subgroup analyses by age showed that the increased risk of events ...
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Can skipping breakfast increase risk of heart disease?
Note: I could only find studies that either (1) correlated some sort of cardiovascular disease or (2) some sort of cardiovascular risk factor with skipping breakfast. Thus, there were articles that ...
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Are the new lower bounds for "high blood pressure" associated with a doubling of risk of complications?
I was expecting to find plenty of evidence to support the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. After all:
They were written by a panel of 21 scientists and health ...
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Are the Apollo astronauts experiencing heart disease at a higher than average rate?
Some problems with that article...
A total of 30 astronauts traveled outside the magnetosphere of the earth: three astronauts on ten missions: Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Not all ...
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