Browsing by Subject "heart attack"

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    Aspirin May Help Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke
    (2010-07-21) Merkle, Alexander
    Aspirin can help prevent heart disease and stroke for some people. The aspirin used for prevention is affordable and found over-the-counter. Aspirin may not be the right choice for some people, especially those who are at risk for bleeding. Talk to your doctor before beginning to take aspirin to prevent heart disease and stroke.
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    Chest Pain: Is it likely to be a heart attack?
    (2010-07-29) Bond, Michael
    Certain features of chest pain increase the likelihood of heart attack while other features of chest pain decrease the likelihood of heart attack. This brochure explains these features and advises patients to seek appropriate medical attention.
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    Controversial benefits of Omega-3 fatty acid (fish oil)
    (2009-09-18) Whitehair, Lance
    Fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids are popular supplements. There is debt as to whether fish oil gives cardiovascular benefit particularly with mortality outcomes. A recent systematic review is referenced.
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    The Lack of Evidence to Support Electrocardiography as a Routine Screening Test for Coronary Heart Disease
    (2010-09-15) Moen, Steffany
    The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends not using electrocardiography (ECG) as a test to screen for blockage in coronary arteries, the arteries that supply blood to the heart. It also recommends against using an ECG to predict a person’s risk for coronary heart disease.
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    Low dose aspirin should be continued in the perioperative period for patients with cardiac risk factors who are scheduled for non-cardiac surgery
    (2010-11-02) McAdams, Sean
    Low-dose aspirin is strongly recommended for prevention of a heart attack in patients with known cardiac risk factors. These risk factors include previous heart attack, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure, poor kidney function, and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Patients are commonly instructed to discontinue low-dose aspirin before surgery because of the anti-platelet effect of the drug may increase surgical bleeding and surgical complications. Despite these concerns, there is evidence that patients who take low-dose aspirin prior to surgery have less risk of heart attack, and do not have an increased number of complications from surgical bleeding.
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    Prognostic implications of elevated troponin I in acute coronary syndrome
    (2008-09-02) Schwartz, Jonathan
    A positive rapid troponin I assay drawn during an episode of ACS is a reliable predictor of an adverse short-term, 30-day outcome, specifically death or MI. However, a negative rapid troponin I assay does not reliably indicate an absence of myocardial damage and predicts neither event-free short-term nor low-risk status of subsequent cardiac events. The event rate for patients with a negative rapid troponin I assay was 5.9% (132/2245 patients).
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    Your Heart & Cocaine
    (2010-11-02) Cascino, Matthew
    Cocaine-associated MI is a well-described complication of cocaine use. This patient education pamphlet discusses the prevention of future MI including cocaine cessation, smoking cessation, and modification of traditional risk factors for atherothrombosis.