Article: Key steps to protect your heart: new guidelines say improving your diet, getting more exercise, and losing weight can cut your heart attack risk.(American Heart Association )

Article: Heart Attack
U*X*L Complete Health Resource;      700+ words ... ... does not realize that a heart attack has occurred. Still ... have heart attacks than women of the same age. Age ... age of forty-five and women over the age of fifty ... more likely to die of a heart attack. Some risk factors that ...

Article: Heart attack signs.(Pamphlet)
Pamphlet by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... number one killer of both men and women in the United States. In men, the risk for heart attack increases after age 45. In women, heart attacks are more likely ... factors that increase the risk for a heart attack include: * A previous heart attack ...

Article: 'Heart Attack'.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;  June 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... myocardial infarction, more commonly known as heart attack. The most common type of heart attack is caused by a thrombosis, or blockage ... damaging or killing the deprived tissue. Heart attack generally occurs only if your coronary arteries ...

Article: Heart attack defined: worldwide consensus on ...
Health News;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... internationally accepted agreement on how heart attack should be defined and diaqnosed has ... reach accurate conclusions. WHAT "HEART ATTACK" MEANS. No one debates the overarching definition of heart attack: it always means cells called myocytes ...

Heart Attack.(Types of Cardiovascular Disease)
The Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Heart Attack Definition A heart attack occurs when a coronary artery becomes completely blocked ... thrombus) or by atherosclerotic plaque. The medical term for a heart attack, myocardial infarction, literally means "heart muscle death ...

Article: Heart attack.(Life Extension)
Manila Bulletin;  February 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... myocardial infarction, more commonly known as heart attack. The most common type of heart attack is caused by a thrombosis, or blockage ... damaging or killing the deprived tissue. Heart attack generally occurs only if your coronary arteries ...

Article: African-American Heart Attack Survivors Cite ...
The Culvert Chronicles;  February 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of men and 35 percent of women will have another heart attack, a risk that is heightened ... experience a new or repeat heart attack or fatal cardiovascular disease ... African-American men and women died as a result a heart attack i