Less Than Half of Heart Attack Survivors Take Beta-Blocker Therapy...

PR Newswire;  May 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......after their heart attack. More than 90 percent of heart attack patients are prescribed...after the heart attack, only 52 percent of patients had regularly...and their patients have a role...number of heart attack recurrences...

Use of Statins Right After Heart Attack Only Effective in Patients With...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......looked at whether starting heart attack patients on the therapy earlier would...routinely prescribe statins to heart attack patients at or shortly after discharge...the arteries. Typically, heart attack patients are given one of the five...

Lipitor More Effective Than Simvastatin in Cutting Risk of Additional...

PR Newswire;  September 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ......80mg in very high-risk heart attack patients.' NEW YORK, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCa...80mg in very high-risk heart attack patients. Lipitor 80mg was also...the longest follow-up of patients with a recent heart attack on statin therapy. In...

GlaxoSmithKline: Coreg(R)(Carvedilol) Receives FDA Approval for Reducing...

Canadian Corporate News;  March 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......R)(carvedilol) for patients who have had a heart attack (myocardial infarction...21 days following a heart attack in patients with left ventricular...blocking agent in patients who have suffered a heart attack when given on top...

Coreg(R)(Carvedilol) Receives FDA Approval for Reducing the Risk of Death...

PR Newswire;  March 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......R)(carvedilol) for patients who have had a heart attack (myocardial infarction...21 days following a heart attack in patients with left ventricular...blocking agent in patients who have suffered a heart attack when given on top...

Treatments boosting odds for heart attack patients

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 7, 2007 ;     674 words ......heart failure or death for heart attack patients, according to a large international...2005, 4.6 percent of the heart attack patients died in the hospital, compared...1999. Eleven percent of heart attack patients developed heart failure...

Higher-Risk Heart Attack Patients Do Not Receive Most Aggressive Care.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......been collecting data on heart attack patients seen at 1,247 U.S. hospitals...highly selected types of heart attack patients. NRMI-4 represents the real-wor...regarding the real-world care of heart attack patients. He added that the gap between...

US DEPT OF HHS: Emergency angioplasty/bypass surgery sa saves heart attack...

M2 Presswire;  August 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ......bypass surgery saves lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:250899 Heart attack patients with a life-threatening...angioplasty can save the lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock...

U.S. FDA Advisory Committee Unanimously Recommends Use of...

PR Newswire;  January 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......R) (carvedilol) in patients who have had a heart attack and who have left ventricular...with Coreg following a heart attack in patients with left ventricular...the use of Coreg in patients who have had a heart attack and who have left ventricular...

Drug breakthrough brings hope for Welsh heart attack patients.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 12, 2003 ;     293 words ...WELSH heart attack patients were last night given...licensed for use in these heart attack patients, could be of considerable...Wales.' 'The 30% of patients who don't get medication following a heart attack don't because of the...

New AHRQ Report Finds Depression is Widespread Among Heart Attack Patients

U.S. Newswire;  May 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Newswire/ -- One in five patients hospitalized for heart attack suffers from major depression...more likely than other heart attack patients to need hospital care...death among depressed post-heart attack patients, whether treatment improves...

Exercise Helps Heart Attack Patients Who Are Depressed, Without Social...

AScribe Health News Service;  May 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heart attack patients who are depressed or without...value of exercise for those heart attack patients who are at higher risk of...health of these high-risk heart attack patients. While the medical community...

Do doctors prescribe too much aspirin for heart attack patients? A lower...

Health News;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......reviewed data from 48,422 patients with ST-elevation heart attack who were enrolled in...doctors continue to give heart attack patients 325 mg of aspirin when...in the management of patients suffering a heart attack, but at the same time...

Keeping `clot-busters' on ambulances shows big benefit Crews get a jump on...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 22, 1999 ;     628 words ......wait until heart attack patients get to the...ambulance-treated patients than in those...4% of the patients). Aborting the heart attack means it...drugs to 10 patients, he said...Ideally, a heart attack is best treated...

Exercise is the best medicine for heart attack patients

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 16, 1991 ;     700+ words ......bottom line is that patients who exercise properly after a heart attack have less chance of...study involving 4,347 heart attack patients at the University of...available for treating heart attack patients. "We used published...