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Kews For Veterans ;
* Tile President’s mild stroke serves to emphasize the importance. of a major research project just getting under way at 14 Veterans * Administration Hospitals. The , work is to test whether long term treatment with anti-bloodclotting medications or special diets canprevent recurrence of heart condi• tions and strokes, and to evaluate such treatment for reducing crippling effects and the number of . deaths. About 5 years will be required to complete the research. In one study anticoagulant drugs Will be given to about 300 patients whd have had the type of heut attack called coronary thrombosis, in which blood clots develop iii the heart arteries. In another sttidy, anticoagulants will be given to about the sany number pf patients? who have had strokes, or blood clots in the brain vessels. A third study will be on special diets! for , patients with the type of hardening of tly arteries called atherosclerosis, in which fat derived materials are deposited in the walls of the . arteries, ’
The diets tlo be used arc a formua containing vegetable oils thought to reduce the amount of fatty substance in the body, called cholesterol, and foods low in fats of any kind. *
Patients in the studies will re*
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