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Heart research shifts to early detection

By Stephen Smith
Globe Staff / November 6, 2006

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It is one of the most enduring and intractable problems in medicine: In half of men and two-thirds of women who die abruptly from heart disease, there is no warning, no symptom of a problem brewing. (Full article: 1260 words)

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