Who Is At Risk Many people think that heart attacks are a “man’s problem,” yet heart disease is actually the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. In men, the risk for heart attack increases significantly after the age of 45. In women, heart attacks are more likely to occur in the years after menopause (usually, after the age of 50). However, younger men and women can al...

Heart attack and stroke are life and death emergencies. The cardiovascular system is complexclosed hydraulic system, which perform the essential service of transportation of oxygen,carbon dioxide, numerous chemical compounds and the blood cells. Patients suffering fromheart attack have to undergo regular check up of their heart functioning. It is highly risk takingjob, as th...

acute myocardial infarction is the most important reason of mortality in iran. more than half of these deaths occur without the patient even reaching to a hospital. there is the evidence that patients with better knowledge of the symptoms of mi will seek help earlier. the purpose of this study is to determine how well a predictive model will perform based solely upon patient-reportable clinical...

Researchers are debating how to convince the heart heal itself instead of laying down scar tissue after a attack.

INTRODUCTION National initiatives to improve the recognition of heart attack and stroke warning signs have encouraged symptomatic people to seek early treatment, but few have shown significant effects in rural American Indian (AI) communities. METHODS During 2009 and 2010, the Montana Cardiovascular Health Program, in collaboration with 2 tribal health departments, developed and conducted cul...

1. (Taken from [1]) A statistical analysis that combines information from several studies is called a metaanalysis. A meta-analysis compared aspirin with placebo on incidence of heart attack and of stroke, seperately for men and from women (J. Am. Med. Assoc., 295: 306-313, 2006). For the Women’s Health Study, heart attacks were reported for 198 of 19,934 taking aspirin and for 193 of 19,942 ta...

The cardiovascular disease does harms to person’s health, and most of them are concerned with arrhythmia which is the leading cause of death. The chances of suffering a myocardial infarction are great and increase up to fifteen times after the first occurrence. During a heart attack, heart muscle is depraved of oxygen and will literally die if the artery remains blocked. The first few hours are...

background : coronary artery diseases are one of the causes of early death all over the world. in developed countries, ischemic heart disease is responsible for the half of the entire mortalities; however in developing countries it is estimated from 9 million deaths per year annually 32 percent of all deaths due to coronary artery disease. acute coronary syndromes are responsible for over 250,0...