Signs And Symptoms Of Heart Attack heart attack. A Healthy Hearts Guide. Many report flulike symptoms. If you suspect a heart attack, call 9-1-1. Say I am having a heart attack. http://www.womensheartfoundation.org/content/HeartAttack/heart_attack_symptoms_r
Extractions: home about us programs press releases ... Pdf Health Library A Healthy Hearts Guide There are about 500,000 heart attack deaths in the U.S. each year. At least 250,000 people die before they even get to the hospital. Many of these deaths could be prevented by acting quickly and by getting treatment right away, especially within the first hour of having chest pain. Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Between the ages of 40 and 60, as many women die of heart disease as breast cancer. Over a lifetime, heart disease kills five times as many women as breast cancer. Heart disease is our nation's number one killer. * Are you at risk? Smoking or daily exposure to second-hand smoke (at home or at work)
ABCNEWS.com : Heart Attack Treatment Varies After emergency treatment, the heart attack patient usually is transferred to a cardiac or an intensive care unit, where he or she will be monitored for four http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/heartattacktreatment010223.html
Extractions: The next Tuesday, LeMay, a computer consultant from Newton, N.J., who at 330 pounds had 145 pounds of excess baggage, joined a health club and started working out on an exercise bicycle. His wife drove him to the emergency room: LeMay was having a heart attack, making him one of the 1.1 million Americans each year who have one. LeMay was lucky. He obtained treatment quickly. Forty percent of heart attack sufferers die from sudden cardiac death, often never reaching the hospital. Treatment Restores Flow Fatty tissue buildup in the arteries and clots that block the flow are responsible for the majority of heart attacks. Treatment aims to restore the flow to the obstructed vessel or vessels.
Secondhand Smoke Ups Heart Attack Risk Nonsmoking individuals living with heavy smokers have four times the risk of heart attack compared with those who live in smokefree environments, according to a study. http://www.cliving.org/NEWS/MARCH98/SECONDHA.HTM
Is This A Heart Attack?: XtraMSN Health Heart. XtraMSN. Is This A heart attack? Health Here s how to tell if you re having a heart attack, and what you should do about it. Look http://xtramsn.co.nz/health/0,,8071-2054977,00.html
Heartburn Or Heart Attack? Heartburn or heart attack? While many of these patients are suffering from a heart attack, some actually may be experiencing severe heartburn. http://www.heartburnalliance.org/section3/1030.jsp
Extractions: Advanced Search familydoctor.org Home Conditions A to Z Heart Attack What is a heart attack? How do I know if I'm having a heart attack? What should I do If I think I am having a heart attack? How can I avoid having a heart attack? Printer-friendly version Email this article A heart attack (also called myocardial infarction) is when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it isn't receiving oxygen. Oxygen is carried to the heart by the arteries (blood vessels). Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage in these arteries. Usually the blockage is caused by atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of fatty deposits (called plaque) inside the artery. This buildup is like the gunk that builds up in a drainpipe and slows the flow of water. Heart attacks can also be caused by a blood clot that gets stuck in a narrow part of an artery to the heart. Clots are more likely to form where atherosclerosis has made an artery more narrow. Return to top How do I know if I'm having a heart attack?
Heart Attack - Everybody - New Zealand Consumer Health Information (Mum, dad, sibling had heart attack or stroke before 65 for females, 55 for males). heart attack MINIMISING HEART RISKS myocardial infarction (MI), coronary. http://www.everybody.co.nz/docsd_h/heartattack.html
Passive Smoking And The Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease A metaanalysis of epidemiologic Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates secondhand smoke causes heart attack, atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular problems. http://216.185.112.5/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3172
Extractions: Advanced Search familydoctor.org Home Conditions A to Z Heart Attack What is a heart attack? How do I know if I'm having a heart attack? What should I do If I think I am having a heart attack? How can I avoid having a heart attack? Printer-friendly version Email this article A heart attack (also called myocardial infarction) is when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it isn't receiving oxygen. Oxygen is carried to the heart by the arteries (blood vessels). Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage in these arteries. Usually the blockage is caused by atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of fatty deposits (called plaque) inside the artery. This buildup is like the gunk that builds up in a drainpipe and slows the flow of water. Heart attacks can also be caused by a blood clot that gets stuck in a narrow part of an artery to the heart. Clots are more likely to form where atherosclerosis has made an artery more narrow. Return to top How do I know if I'm having a heart attack?
InteliHealth: InteliHealth Home Summary of a Johns Hopkins study. 32,000 women were tracked over 10 years. Those exposed to secondhand smoke were 91% more likely to have a heart attack. http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?d=dmtICNNews&c=36866&p=~br,AET|~st,
THE JOURNAL NEWS: A Gannett Suburban Webpaper heart attack treatment But whether or not Rockland residents who are having a heart attack get that quick care depends on where they live in the county. http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/050104/a0101heartattack.html
Extractions: (Original publication: May 1, 2004) Richard Freyvogel was at home in Chestnut Ridge two years ago when he started to feel the crushing pain and shortness of breath that signaled a heart attack. He was taken by ambulance to the closest hospital and later transported again to a New York City facility, where doctors performed angioplasty to unclog his arteries. "When you're in that situation, you want to get to the nearest hospital that has a heart response team and can do the angioplasty right away," he said. Now, a regional emergency medicine advisory group is considering a proposal that would allow paramedics to do just that. A group of emergency medicine doctors will meet Monday to discuss a change in guidelines that would enable paramedics to transport patients having a heart attack to the closest hospital that provides angioplasty, a surgical procedure to remove blockages that choke the supply of blood to the heart.
Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools WASHINGTON (AP) Doctors have won federal approval of a new blood test to help them tell which patients suffering chest pain aren't really having a heart attack. Making that diagnosis can be surprisingly difficult. Up to 5 million people go to U.S. emergency rooms each year complaining of chest pain, but only about one in five is having a heart attack, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Other ailments, from severe indigestion to gallstones, can mimic a heart attack and up to half of chest-pain patients have atypical symptoms or test results that make diagnosis a challenge, said Dr. Steven Gutman, FDA's chief of clinical tests. In such cases, it can take from eight to 24 hours before emergency room doctors are sure the person's heart is OK and send him or her home. On Friday, the FDA approved a simple blood test that, when added to heart checks, could greatly improve doctors' ability to rule out a heart attack and send those patients home sooner. The $30 test, made by Ischemia Technologies Inc. of Denver, uses the metal cobalt to hunt changes in a blood protein that occur during a heart attack. Today, two tests are standard for heart-attack detection: an EKG to measure the heart's electrical activity, and a blood test that detects troponin, a protein present in the blood after a heart attack.
Extractions: Northwestern University A study published in the May 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association provides the strongest evidence yet that cardiovascular disease in parents particularly at an early age is a major predictor of their children having a heart attack or stroke in middle age. The study, by researchers from Northwestern University and the Framingham Heart Study, showed a doubling of cardiovascular risk in men and a 70 percent increased risk in women who had at least one parent with early onset cardiovascular disease (younger than 55 in the father and younger than 65 in the mother). These increased risks were found after accounting for other risk factors, such as high cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, cigarette smoking and diabetes. When both parents had early-onset cardiovascular disease, children were at even greater risk for a heart attack or stroke. Our results shed important light on the true magnitude of the association between offspring and parental cardiovascular disease, said Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., first author on the study.
CNN - Study: Passive Smoke An Even Greater Risk - May 19, 1997 New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in nonsmokers. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/19/nfm.passive.smoke/index.html
Extractions: Web posted at: 10:37 p.m. EDT (0237 GMT) From Correspondent Linda Ciampa DALLAS (CNN) New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in non-smokers. The study, published in this week's American Heart Association's journal Circulation, finds that non-smoking women who were regularly exposed to passive smoke either in their workplaces or in their homes had a 91 percent higher risk of heart attack or death than those who were not subjected to smoke. For those who had only occasional exposure to smoke, the increase was 58 percent, the study concludes. The 10-year investigation of more than 32,000 women found a higher level of risk from passive smoking than has been seen before. A study published last August found non-smoking spouses of smokers had about a 20 percent higher death rate from heart disease than non-smokers living with spouses who did not smoke. "The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart," Dr. Ichiro Kawachi of the Harvard School of Public Health said. "It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack."
MTV.com - News -J.J. Jackson, One Of MTV's First VJs, Dies At Age 62 JJ Jackson, remembered as one of the first faces of MTV, died Wednesday night in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack, according to friends and former http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1485838/20040318/index.jhtml?headlines=true
