Bonnie Brown, 50, of Baltimore, says she also didn't change her life until she had a heart attack in 1997. "I used to smoke, ate cold-cut subs for breakfast, and had lots of fried foods, all the time, any time," Brown says. But her heart attack--which she initially mistook for a bad case of indigestion--led her to give up cigarettes, improve her diet, and sign up for weekly water aerobics and l...

The underlying cause of heart disease is a process called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis has been described simply as hardening of the arteries, but in truth, it involves a complex interaction of biological processes in the walls of arteries. In atherosclerosis, plaque may build up in the vessels that carry blood to the heart (coronary arteries). When one of these plaques tears or ruptures, a...

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is a leading cause of stroke, coronary artery disease, heart attack, and heart and kidney failure in the United States, all of which contribute to the rising costs of health care. The Georgia Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Program is an education and direct service program for low-income patients with hypertension. This project evaluated the cost-effectiveness of t...

Myocardial infarction, commonly known as heart attack, is a leading cause of human death world wide. Hence, it requires early detection of the disease non-invasively through real CT angiogram images. In this paper, median filter has been applied on input images for noise removal followed by global thresholding with frangi vesselness filter using dilation morphology for segmentation of coronary ...

People who have experienced a heart attack or stroke and live through it are extremely likely to experience another. The primary prevention of subsequent cardiovascular events is to control the major cardiac risk factors (e.g., elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, diabetes, and physical inactivity. The most popular "secondary" recommendation to reduce the risk of a subs...

Heart attack which is the main cause of death for both men and women leader among deaths due to heart diseases. Therefore, early diagnosis very important patients who are having a attack. study aimed develop clinical decision support system help physicians. In study, variables were obtained accompanied by physicians statistical analysis methods, where optimum selected from these considering pat...

introduction: reliable information about death causes mentioned in death certificate, is one of the basic resources for fundamental researches, epidemiological studies, public health services programming and the way of resource allocation in all countries. so, it seems, that is necessary for physicians to have enough knowledge and understandig in how to issue a death certificate. methods: this ...