The disease can then recur, causing heart damage and blindness.
Since the heart is a muscle, why don't statins cause heart damage? A. You ask an interesting question.
There are now known to be other villains, such as sugar and refined starch, which cause heart damage through obesity.
Research has shown that the toxic fumes generated by smokers can cause heart damage in people who breathe them.
"If the answer is yes, that replacement therapy causes heart damage or sparks emergence of prostate cancer, then you will know in six years or so," he says.
In a correction posted online, the journal said that the paper's abstract — or summary — should no longer claim that Vioxx causes heart damage only when it is used for more than 18 months.
The reasons why doxorubicin causes heart damage are not fully understood, and the manuscript by Wong et al. postulates that inflammatory cytokines released from macrophages or other cell types may play a significant role in the damage process in response to doxorubicin and possibly other chemotherapeutic agents.
Slightly more than 400 of the 646 hostages who were hospitalized after the raid remained in hospitals, suffering from effects of the gas, which restricted breathing and circulation and, in some cases, caused heart, liver and kidney damage.
In the long term, Kronberg said withholding insulin can also cause nerve damage, heart attacks, stroke, gum disease, and infertility.
Fen-phen, a popular diet drug combination had recently been pulled from the market because it was suspected of causing heart valve damage.
