Wojcik's team compared 223 coronary heart disease cases with 223 controls from the NYU Women's Health Study. Serum taurine showed no link overall, but among women with total cholesterol above 250 mg/mL, higher taurine tracked with up to 34 percent lower risk.
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Eating Beans, Vegetables May Cut Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
A meta-analysis of 15 studies tied the highest dietary folate intakes to 31% lower coronary heart disease risk, each extra 200 micrograms a day to 12% lower risk, and the highest blood folate levels to 26% lower risk. The authors note the observational data cannot prove cause.
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Pathological gamblers face higher risk of coronary heart disease
In a French case-control study of 73 patients hospitalized for coronary heart disease and 61 other cardiology inpatients, 8.2% of the heart disease patients were pathological gamblers, versus none of the comparison group. Gambling did not track with more alcohol or nicotine use.
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