Susmita Parashar MD

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• Stress Can Directly Affect a Woman's Heart

  Results of a study presented in the Experimental Biology 2012 meeting in San Diego showed that coping with mental stress is harder on a  woman's heart, when compared to that of men. Researcher Chester Ray, PhD, professor of medicine, and cellular and molecular physiology at Penn State's College of...

• What is Left-Sided Congestive Heart Failure?

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• Are There Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Heart?

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• The Diabetic's Connection to Heart Disease

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• What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?

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