November 12, 2004, Hour One: Diabetes News/ Heart Disease Update

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Hour One: Diabetes News/ Heart Disease Update

Can taking vitamin E actually make heart disease worse? A new study, presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association this week, suggests that may be the case. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll get an update on that study, and other news from the meeting, including the latest in drug therapy, new blood pressure guidelines, and a mesh bag that slips around an ailing heart. (questions about the mesh bag can be directed to info@acorncv.com.)

Plus, we'll find out about a recently discovered form of RNA and its role in diabetes. Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (2-3 Eastern).

Guests:
Markus Stoffel
Professor and Director of Laboratory of Metabolic Diseases
The Rockefeller University
New York, New York

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Dr. Paula Johnson
Cardiologist
Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology
Chief of the Division of Women's Health
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Robert Eckel
Professor, Medicine
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
President Elect, American Heart Association
University of Colorado Health Science Center

Dr. Douglas Lowell Mann
Cardiologist
Baylor College of Medicine
Dallas, Texas

This segment produced by Annette Heist

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