What Triggers Heart Attacks and Stroke?
Strokes, heart attacks, and cardiac arrest are usually the result of cholesterol-rich plaque deposits in the arteries going to the brain and heart. They occur, when a particular activity triggers...
View ArticleMost Heart Attack Patients Stop Taking Lifesaving Medications Within Three Years
Surprisingly, many heart attack victims stop taking their lifesaving medication within three years of the attack. This was the finding of a Mayo Clinic study presented November 5 at the American Heart...
View ArticleSpeedy Hospitalization After Heart Attack Onset Greatly Improves Care
A Mayo Clinic Research study finds that getting a heart attack patient to hospital within one to two hours of heart attack onset can assure that chances of receiving proper treatment are 70 percent...
View ArticleCan Daily Aspirin for Heart Attack Prevention be Dangerous?
Nearly 250,000 Americans may suffer from bleeding complications each year because they take an adult-sized aspirin daily to prevent heart attack, rather than baby aspirin. That is the conclusion of...
View ArticleStudy Shows Obesity Is a Major Risk for Heart Failure
The results of the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) identifies "the biological effects of obesity on the heart" as a serious reason for 72 million overweight Americans to worry about their...
View ArticleBody Cooling Treatment Studied for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the first large-scale, multicenter study to investigate the effectiveness of body cooling...
View ArticleSurviving a Heart Attack in a Public Place
Cardiac arrests that can be treated by electric stimulation, also known as shockable arrests, were found at a higher frequency in public settings than in the home, according to a recent study. The...
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