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Article: Heart attacks without chest pain more often fatal.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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2004 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who have heart attacks or other heart conditions who do not experience chest pain are commonly overlooked and undertreated at the hospital, often resulting in greater fatality rates in this group of patients.
A new study in the August 2004 issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, shows that cardiac patients presenting to the hospital without chest pain have triple the death rate of other cardiac patients and are less likely to receive medications to slow the progression of a heart attack.
"While the majority of people who have acute coronary syndromes, such as ...