Researchers Disagree Whether or Not Death is a Symptom of Being Dead

To get those results, however, Wolfe defined "serious heart problems" much more broadly than others--including Topol--have in the past. When Topol co-authored an influential paper on Vioxx and Celebrex in 2001, he and his colleagues looked at three certain signs of cardiovascular risk: heart attack, stroke and death. Wolfe, in contrast, grouped together a smorgasbord of heart problems that are harder to diagnose, such as angina, arrhythmia and heart failure, a weakening of the heart muscle.