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Cardiac rehabilitation
Mayo Clinic — Cardiac rehabilitation - Overview covers the results of this program to improve your heart health. Cardiac rehabilitation - also called cardiac rehab - is a customized program of exercise and education, designed to help you recover after a heart ...More…
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Traffic exposure may have a triggering effect on heart ...
American Heart — Traffic exposure may have a triggering effect on heart attack PALM HARBOR, Fla., March 13, 2009 - People who have had a heart attack are likely to report having been in traffic shortly before their symptoms began, researchers reported at the ...More…
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Less severe first heart attacks linked to heart disease ...
American Heart — Less severe first heart attacks linked to heart disease death reductions DALLAS, Jan. 20, 2009 - The severity of first heart attacks has dropped significantly in the United States - propelling a decline in coronary heart disease deaths, ...More…
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Exercise helps vessels after heart attack, but benefits ...
American Heart — Exercise helps vessels after heart attack, but benefits vanish when work-outs stop DALLAS, March 16, 2009 - Aerobic exercise, resistance training and both together safely improved blood vessel (or endothelial) function after heart attack, but ...More…
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Talk With Your Doctor About Taking Aspirin Every Day
If you already take aspirin, put a note on your bathroom mirror as a reminder. Aspirin can reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke. It can: If you have already had a heart attack or stroke, daily aspirin can lower your risk of having another ...More…
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Task Force Recommends Using Aspirin To Prevent ...
Agency for Healthcare Research — Patients and clinicians should consider risk factors-including age, gender, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking and risk of gastrointestinal bleeding-before deciding whether to use aspirin to prevent heart attacks or strokes, ...More…
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Act Fast During Heart Attacks
Centers for Disease Control — According to the American Heart Association, clot-busting drugs can stop some heart attacks in progress, reducing disability and saving lives. They work best given within 1 hour of when heart attack signs begin. That's why it's important to ...More…
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Mission: Lifeline
American Heart — American Heart Association EMS Survey Uncovers Deficiencies in Response, Treatment and Transfer of Patients With Most Deadly Heart Attacks DALLAS, Feb. 16, 2009 -- Preliminary results of one of the nation's largest national surveys of Emergency ...More…
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Broken heart syndrome
Mayo Clinic — Broken heart syndrome - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes of this heart muscle condition. Broken heart syndrome is a temporary heart condition brought on by stressful situations, such as the death of a loved one. Many people who have ...More…
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Study finds timing is everything for some heart attack ...
American Heart — Study finds timing is everything for some heart attack patients NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 10 - There is strong evidence that getting to the hospital quickly during a heart attack is critical, since early treatment saves both lives and heart muscle. ...More…
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Statin reduces heart attack, stroke rates in patients ...
American Heart — Statin reduces heart attack, stroke rates in patients with normal cholesterol but elevated C-reactive protein NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 9 - A lipid-lowering drug reduced heart attacks by 54 percent in people who had normal cholesterol but elevated ...More…
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Heart and stroke death rates down, some risk factors ...
American Heart — Heart and stroke death rates down, some risk factors still too high Data on early signs of cardiovascular disease available for the first time DALLAS, Dec. 15, 2008 - The age-adjusted death rates for coronary heart disease and stroke have each ...More…