Sentences with phrase «second heart attack»

Because aspirin helped prevent second heart attacks in people with heart disease, at first doctors recommended that those at high risk for heart problems start taking a low dose of aspirin every day.

In April, a similar analysis of previous research found that the supplements did not help prevent second heart attacks or strokes in people with cardiovascular disease.

Stan is particularly concerned on two accounts: His parents are both university professors and members of the intelligentsia, and his father recently suffered his second heart attack.

He just had his second heart attack.

Among the conundrums he cites: The drugs vary widely in their ability to lower cholesterol, yet regardless of their potency, they appear to have the same potential to prevent a second heart attack or stroke.

To be clear, little if any disagreement exists over «secondary prevention,» or using the drug to prevent a second heart attack or stroke in someone with established disease.

It was pretty exciting for the cardiology staff examining me when I experienced a second heart attack while I was hooked up to an electrocardiogram on a treadmill.

After an average follow - up time of 43 months, 105 patients or 17 percent in the DEFER group and 109 or 18 percent in the standard treatment group met the primary endpoint, a composite of death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, a second heart attack, and unplanned repeat angioplasty, a nonsignificant difference.

Each had another factor, such as age or diabetes, that put them at risk for a second heart attack.

Next Page: Get the right diagnosis [pagebreak] Get the right diagnosis Shortly after suffering her second heart attack on the ice, Toshawa Andrews, a figure skater from Los Angeles was finally diagnosed with a type of CAD called coronary microvascular dysfunction.

Another study, published last spring in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, found that among nearly 400 heart attack patients the most pessimistic patients were twice as likely to suffer from serious complications such as a second heart attack, heart surgery or death in the four years following their initial heart attack, compared with the most optimistic patients.

In the DART study, 2033 men were randomized to various diets after a heart attacks to see if any particular diet would reduce the risk of a second heart attack.

My dad was a chain smoker as well, I guess everyone smoked in the 60s and 70s and even part of 80s, though he stopped smoking after the second heart attack.

The physical benefits include decreased blood pressure, reduced chance of a second heart attack, and decreased triglyceride concentrations.

Physically ailing and very weak after his second heart attack, he was nonetheless able to create a number of large oils during his later years; his 50 x 60 inch scale took cues from Colour Field artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, whom Avery himself had inspired during his time in New York, in order to create an absorbing, all - encompassing pictorial experience.

He continued to paint, despite failing health, but suffered a second heart attack in 1960, which truly incapacitated him.

For instance, if someone has suffered a second heart attack.

Another study, out of Sweden, showed women in marital distress had a three times greater risk of a second heart attack.