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Cardiovascular Disease Linked to Evolutionary Changes That May Have Protected Early Mammals from Trauma, Penn Study Finds

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Can a bird have a heart attack? A recent paper published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that cardiovascular disease may be an unfortunate consequence of mammalian evolution. The study, published in a recent issue of the journal Blood, demonstrates that the same features of blood platelets that may have provided an evolutionary...

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