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Beyond preventing the flu. rurt t >> reporter: the flvaccine coul lower the chant of a heart attack. >> when somebody comes into the hospital with a heart attack, it is not uncommon that this individual has had some type of a viral illness or process in the recent past. >> reporter: in one study of people 35 and older, heart attack risks jumped six times within a week of coming down with the flu. in patients with cardiovascular disease, the vaccine may be as effective against heart attacks in th...

Dedicated his career to helping the most needy people in the world and finds himself in prison being accused of spying. it is grotesque. his son, even though it he was lured into showing it to iran he was you can visit your son thinking that okay, the opening things up so i can have a little humanitarian visit to simon boyd. and then they get him and throw him in jeopardy not only that, the diocese was a heart problem. he very well. any day now and at 81 years of age. one has to wonder how stron...

Who had the flu. >> every single one of our patients who has heart disease, part of our process is to discuss a flu vaccine. not just to prevent the flu but as a means of preventing a heart problem. >> and another benefit? if you dont get the flu, you wont give it to anyone else. elizabeth cohen, cbs reporting. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you shouldve done more research on them. for drivers with accident fo...

Group of doctors do it, sort of have his insiders do it as a physical, and youre going to generate conflict. >> dr. gupta, i give you the last word here. whats the takeaway. >> because it is for the benefit of the patient, sometimes its self-reported when it comes to height and weight. they may not even ask you your height and weight assuming you take these measurements yourself. the president is representative afri of a lot of americans. hes sort of right in the middle for his risk of heart dis...

Have gone up. despite being on medication. we has borderline obesity. and based on this one test known as a calcium scan that he has a score of 133. people may not be familiar with this testing. >> i actually just had this. this is the thing that test the calcium inside the artery? >> testing the calcium inside the plaque. which are located in the coronary vessel the blood ses vels that supply the heart. we have had a test like this done many years ago. its basically designed to figure out if yo...

Important. i think the president again is representative of a lot of americans. hes sort of right in the middle in terms of heart disease and risk factor for heart problems. theres something that can be done about it. if calling it excellent health is probably not the best approach. that sort of makes it seem like theres nothing to be done. there are things that can be done. reversing the heart disease and people are looking at the story and saying that sound like me. well, you dont have to have...

Had a test like this done many years ago, and its basically designed to figure out if you have heart disease and trying to be predictive of what your likelihood of having some sort of heart problem is down the road. thats why the test is done. anything above 100 is considered heart disease, and they can make predictions if nothing else changes what the likelihood of having some sort of heart problem is. he can do things about it, but thats the whole point of the test. >> you point out also, thou...

Despite the fact that hes been on medications. so the president has heart disease. those numbers qualify him for having heart disease and it clearly needs a plan to prevent a heart problem down the road. >> dr. oconnor, does the calcium score concern you? >> it concerns me. its evidence that, yes, its not the coronary vessels that he was born with but the function of his heart was better addressed by the stress echo and they were reassuring numbers. i look for actionable information and we know ...

Does have whats known as coronary athrosclorosis. thats basically plaque in the blood vessels that lead to the heart. thats heart disease. he gave a number which is 133. every chart you look at, all the studies and journal articles written about this shows that anything over 100 is heart disease and puts someone at moderate risk of having some sort of heart problem down the line. this is a scan basically, a ct scan, of the chest. its basically looking for plaque in the blood vessels that go to t...

Heart? does the heartbeat abnormally, something abnormal when the heart is stressed in some way. according to dr. jacksons reports, thats not the case. the heart looks to be fine right now. there is some evidence of disease though and that means theres disease in the blood vessels that feed the heart. if that disease or that narrowing gets worse over time, thats when you start to worry about some heart problem down the line. they can categorize this by the amount of plaque he has in his blood ve...