Long-term effects of treatments has been in the news lately. Extended usage of Vioxx, Celebrex, and Aleve may cause heart disease. Now there is a more positive heart disease implication. Childhood immunizations may protect us from heart disease. The following story from New Scientist gives us some of the details. Whether the mice studies carry over to humans is still unknown, but the results are promising.
A course of injections in childhood might help protect people from heart disease later in life. And for those whose arteries are already clogged up, a dose of antibodies could provide immediate benefits. That is the enticing vision raised by animal studies.
"It is an extremely attractive idea," says heart expert Andrew Newby at Bristol Royal Infirmary in the UK, who chaired a session of the European Vascular Genomics Network meeting in Cambridge, UK, last week where the vaccine research was presented. "In principle it would be a relatively short-term treatment, but give lifetime protection," he says.
what percentage of men who took annual holidays would be less likely to die of a heart disease than those who'd skipped time off?
Posted by: shamsul aziz | February 10, 2005 at 08:57 PM
Errr.. mr Aziz... taking short-cut to win the half-million contest, huh? I believe the answer is in one of the books advertised in their special offer flyers...
Posted by: Aziz Shamsul | March 08, 2005 at 03:06 AM
what percentage of men who took annual holidays would be less likely to die of a heart disease than those who'd skipped time off?
Posted by: ASAP | August 29, 2005 at 02:30 AM