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<title><![CDATA[Sleepless nights can hike teens’ blood pressure]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Poor sleep habits can do more than annoy parents and make teenagers drowsy in school — they can lead to high blood pressure, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Teens who slept fewer than 6 1/2 hours a night had more than twice the risk of high blood pressure and those with troubled sleep had more than triple the risk, the team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio found.
Writing in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, the researchers found the pattern held even ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-08-19 11:07:33</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pioneering heart surgeon DeBakey dead at 99]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[





 
 
 
 Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99. 
DeBakey died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston from &quot;natural causes,&quot; according to a statement issued early Saturday by Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital.
DeBakey counted world leaders among his patients and helped turn Baylor from a provincial school in...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-15 13:55:16</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treating blood pressure may ward off dementia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Treating high blood pressure in the very elderly may help reduce their risk of developing dementia, researchers said.
Blood pressure treatment in the over-80 set has already been shown to reduce risk of heart problems and fatal strokes.
&quot;There may be an additional benefit in terms of prevention of dementia,&quot; said Dr. Ruth Peters of Imperial College London, whose study appears in the journal Lancet Neurology.
The findings, which were released Monday, were based on a new analysis of a study of nea...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-12 16:29:16</pubDate>
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