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• n  the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction

• cardiac muscle

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• Sugar Can Stress Out Your Heart
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association has found regularly exposing the heart to too much sugar can lead to heart failure . “When the heart muscle is already stressed from high blood pressure or other diseases, and then takes in too much glucose, it adds insult to injury,” said study co-author Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer , a ...
  June 16, 2013 - redOrbit