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Profuse sweating with no apparent cause followed by a spasm-like sensation at the lower end of the esophagus is a warning sign of an impending myocardial infarction (heart attack).
MOSTLY BS
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A cohort study of 382 adults younger than 60 years old, assessed 3 months after a first myocardial infarction and followed for 20 years, found that participants in the highest tertile of interleukin-6 had a 2.70-fold higher risk of…
SOME BS
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A prospective Fudan University study of 724 patients with recent myocardial infarction found that soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) was an independent predictor of long-term major adverse cardiac events, reporting an unadjusted…
NOT BS