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Patients with atrial fibrillation who are treated with oral thrombin inhibitors (OTIs) have a slightly higher risk of suffering a heart attack than patients who take vitamin K antagonists. Scientists headed by Dr. Tobias Petzold of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research...

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Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, as well as from the German Center for Heart and Circulatory Research, have found a new mechanism which leads to atrial fibrillation and even sudden cardiac death due to cardiac arrhythmia.

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Depression poses a risk for cardiovascular diseases in men that is just as great as that posed by high cholesterol levels and obesity. This is according to a report recently published in the 'Atherosclerosis' journal by researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, together...

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