The data is collected by the heart surgeons' professional body, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgeons.
Yet there is also something diseased at the heart of professional football – epitomised by its attitude towards homosexuality.
David Nowell New Barnet, Hertfordshire Could there be a clearer illustration of the rotten heart of professional football than a comparison of two news items recently?
In its second annual "state of the nation" report, the commission said that unless there is a sudden change of heart by professional bodies and employers, the new government elected in May should bring in legislation to ban unpaid internships.
Nor can it be denied that expertise, rooted in codified and accumulating knowledge, is at the heart of professional education, perhaps the main task of the 21st-century university.
In committing to a life partner at just 24, McIlroy conforms to the Gary Player school of conservative golfing wisdom, which places the love of a good woman at the heart of professional success.
But for all the joy and mania surrounding the N.F.L. game, for all the spectacle and the glorious noise outside it and for all the systems and salesmanship and money within it, there is still something human and grave at the heart of professional football, something frightening in its zero-sum tally of risk and defeat.
This is certainly the very heart of professional autonomy" (Freidson 1970a, 43).
Consumers with a greater stake in driver involvement will find the C-Class a high roller at heart: fast, professional but less athletically inclined than, say, a Cadillac ATS or BMW 3 Series.
This will probably come as a shock to you (since it still does to me), but I have a soft spot in my heart for professional wrestling and have since I was a kid.
