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Strongly consider calling 911 Do not drive or have yourself driven to the hospital Call for an ambulance: they have equipment to help you CHEST DISCOMFORT OR PAIN This discomfort or pain can feel like a tight ache, pressure, fullness or squeezing in the center of your chest lasting more than a few minutes. This [...]
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Health care reform means a lot of things to different people – from expanding care to the uninsured to increasing premiums, from impacting our deficit to eliminating the ramifications of pre-existing conditions. But there is another side of pre-existing conditions that deserves a little more focus, especially as we debate the various other aspects of [...]
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FRIDAY, Feb. 26, 2010 (HealthDay News) — Cutting off the flow of blood to the arm by repeatedly inflating a blood pressure cuff appears to reduce the amount of tissue damaged during a heart attack, a new Danish study shows. This procedure somehow has a protective effect on heart muscle, by mechanisms that are not [...]
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A new approach to analyzing electrocardiograms–a ubiquitous test of the heart’s electrical function–could predict who is most likely to die after a heart attack. Researchers at MIT found that measuring how much the shape of the electrical waveform varies from beat to beat identifies high-risk patients better than existing risk factors. If the findings hold [...]
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Men who have sex at least twice a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, according to new research. It shows men who indulge in regular lovemaking are up to 45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than men who have sex once a month or less. The study, of [...]
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Study Suggests Link Between Stock Market Turmoil and an Increase in Heart Attacks By Charlene Laino WebMD Health News March 17, 2010 (Atlanta) — When the stock market dips, your heart health may, too. New research hints at a link between market volatility and rising heart attack rates. Duke University researchers found that as the [...]
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Resveratrol May Replace Aspirin As Heart Protector; Longevinex® First Branded Resveratrol Pill Successfully Tested During Heart Attack With the realization that half of the people experiencing a sudden mortal heart attack were taking aspirin on the day of their demise, researchers have begun to search for a more reliable alternative, and they may have found [...]
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(An excellent review article on the history of care after heart attacks.).. “What we did for patients with acute MI was place them in a cool, dark place. Give them morphine for pain and lidocaine to prevent arrhythmias and hope for the best.” The speaker is Steven Nissen, MD, director of Cardiovascular Medicine at the [...]
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CNN) — The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, according to a Senate committee report released Saturday. The 334-page report by the Senate Finance Committee also criticized the Food and Drug Administration, [...]
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In the United States, the risks of having a heart attack during the winter months are twice as high as in the summertime. And, a heart attack in the winter is also more likely to be fatal than a heart attack during any other time of year. Why? Lots of reasons, and they’re not all [...]
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The most dangerous times for heart attack and for all kinds of cardiovascular emergency — including sudden cardiac death, rupture or aneurysm of the aorta, pulmonary embolism and stroke — are the morning and during the last phase of sleep. A group from Harvard estimated this risk and evaluated that on average, the extra risk [...]
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Research has shown that heart attack victims who have pets live longer. Even watching a tank full of tropical fish may lower blood pressure, at least temporarily. A study of 92 patients hospitalized in coronary care units for angina or heart attack found that those who owned pets were more likely to be alive a [...]
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Owning a cat could reduce your risk of a heart attack by nearly one third, researchers told delegates of the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in New Orleans last week. The finding provoked a mixed reaction from heart experts and veterinarians. The finding was the main result of a 10 year study of more [...]
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. . After I experienced a severe heart attack, I was extremely grateful to be alive; it was as if my ego had almost disappeared. I was grateful for every breath. This feeling wore off after several months, but the near death experience did substantially change my perspective and attitude towards life. It has [...]
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