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LIFE AFTER HEART ATTACK

Life AFTER HEART Attack Many people survive heart attacks and live active, full lives after treatment which includes angioplasty /bypass surgery or medicines. If you get help quickly, treatment can limit damage to your heart muscle. Less heart damage improves your chances for a better quality of life after a heart attack. Medical Follow-up After a heart attack, you'll need treatment for coronary heart disease (CHD). This will help prevent another heart attack. Your doctor may recommend:      Lifestyle changes, such as following a healthy diet, being physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, and quitting smoking       Medicines to control chest pain or discomfort, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, and your heart's workload           A cardiac rehabilitation program If you find it hard to get your medicines or take them, talk with your doctor. Don't ...

Heart Attack

The most important Cardiac emergency is Heart Attack. It is important to recognize the signs & symptoms to be able to make a correct diagnosis & timely treatment can save the life of a person. Chest pain can be very deceptive. It is a subjective discomfort experienced by the individual, whichmay be of cardiac or non-cardiac origin. In short, the safest course is to always assume that it is cardiac in origin. Crushing chest pain is the most obvious symptoms, but not all heart attacks begin with it. In fact, some heart attacks cause no symptoms at all. This is more common in people who have diabetes. Sometimes there may be mild chest pain and discomfort that can occur while one is doing some activity or at rest. Depending on one’s age, gender and other medical conditions, symptoms may be more or less severe. Chest discomfort that feels like pressure, fullness or a squeezing pain in the centre of your chest; that lasts for more than a few minutes, or goes away ...