Strokes and heart attacks occur when blockages in the arteries supplying the brain or heart muscles cut off the supply of blood to tissues.

当供应大脑或心脏肌肉的动脉阻塞，进而切断组织血液供应时，就会出现中风和心脏病发作的情况。

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More and more studies show that it can also lead to strokes and heart attacks.

越来越多的研究表明，睡眠呼吸暂停症还可能导致中风和心脏病。

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This can cause strokes and heart attacks, as well as kidney disease, eye problems and dementia.

这将导致中风和心脏病，同时还有肾病、眼部问题甚至痴呆症。

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Such thickening and narrowing of the blood passages can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

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The scientists said the results would be thirteen percent fewer heart attacks, eight percent fewer strokes, four percent fewer deaths and eleven percent fewer new cases of heart disease.

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"What we found is that,in fact, even after measuring those additional biomarkers that there wasn't a great deal of benefit in terms of understanding who was more likely to develop heart disease" Doctor Wang says they did identify some combinations of biomarkers that improved predictions of heart attacks and strokes.

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One idea he and his colleagues are working on is to fight blood clots which cause strokes and heart attacks by filling bubbles with an anticoagulant, and coating them with antibodies that like to attach themselves to fibrin (the protein that gums up the blood when it clots).

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Either the imaging technique doesn't predict whether drugs prevent heart attacks and strokes, or Zetia isn't going to prevent heart attacks and strokes, says Prediman K. Shah, a researcher who studies cholesterol at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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