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  • Coronary heart disease
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Panels of Heart Exhibition: Angina Pectoris and Coronary Disease.
  • A diseased heart affected by a coronary thrombosis and an aneurysm. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Mechanical heart
  • ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • Enjoy healthy eating : a tasty challenge : free recipes inside / Health Education Authority ; recipes by Dawn Stock.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Nutty brain, artwork
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013