One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Just over one in 12 U. S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts – an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. “This is a young, healthy, fit group,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. “These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they’re deployed into combat,” he told Reuters Health. . . .
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