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Natural Disaster

Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster at roughly $108 billion (2005 USD) and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States (The Data Center, 2014). It first formed as a tropical depression on August 23rd, 2005 but upgraded all the way to a category 5 hurricane by August 28th,

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Troponin-T Levels: New A-fib Risk Factor?

A study published last month found that serial measures of high sensitivity cardiac troponin-T (hs-cTnT) levels may be used to predict incident atrial fibrillation (AF) independent of traditional risk factors. The study suggests that circulating troponin levels caused by either myocyte damage or protein turnover predispose older adults to AF and that it is a

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