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Article: Tommy Lasorda Joins Heart Attack Survival Crusade; Emergency Physicians Say Don't Ignore Symptoms and Keep Aspirin Handy.
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- Business Wire
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- July 21, 1999
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DALLAS--(BW SportsWire)--July 21, 1999--
Baseball Hall-of-Famer and heart-attack survivor Tommy Lasorda is joining forces with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Bayer(R) Aspirin to increase the survival rate of heart attack, the nation's leading killer. The Heart Attack? React! campaign will focus on two important factors contributing to the 350,000 heart attack deaths each year - denial by heart attack victims and those around them and lack of awareness of aspirin's lifesaving role.
"I was lucky to survive my heart attack, but most people aren't that lucky," Lasorda explains. "Too often, heart attack victims and those around them ...