Follow Your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks-An Instrumental Variable Approach

Follow Your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks-An Instrumental Variable Approach.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of heart attack patients' access to intensive treatment on mortality and costs. DATA SOURCES Administrative data of 4,920 patients with acute myocardial infarction from the Austrian Social Security Database and the Upper Austrian Sickness Fund for the period 2002-2011. STUDY DESIGN As treatment intensity in a hospital largely depends on whether it has a cat...

Follow your heart

Long distance travel is an unusual activity for humans. The economical cabin environment (low air circulation, limited space, low humidity, etc.) during the long haul flights causes discomfort and even stress for many passengers. In-flight video and music systems are commonly available to improve the comfort level of the passengers. However, current in-flight music systems do not explore how th...

Look after your heart.

Follow your heart: Emotion adaptively influences perception.

The current review introduces a new program of research that suggests the perception of spatial layout is influenced by emotions. Though perceptual systems are often described as closed and insulated, this review presents research suggesting that a variety of induced emotions (e.g., fear, disgust, sadness) can produce changes in vision and audition. Thus, the perceptual system may be highly int...

Wine and your heart.

Letter to Editor: We read with interest the AHA consensus statement “Wine and Your Heart” by Goldberg et al.1 Observational studies suggest an inverse association between the consumption of alcoholic beverages and coronary artery disease. It has been suggested that red wine might be more protective than other alcoholic beverages, although observational studies have wide variations in methodolog...