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Article: STRESS MANAGEMENT REDUCES HEART ATTACK RISK, STUDY FINDS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 20, 1997
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A stress management program helped heart patients reduce their risk of heart attacks or the need for surgery by 74 percent, according to a new study.
``In addition to diet, quitting smoking and controlling blood pressure, you need to think about managing stress'' to avert potentially fatal heart problems, said the lead researcher, James Blumenthal, a professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center.
All of 107 patients studied suffered from impaired blood flow to the heart in mental stress tests or during normal daily activities when they wore heart monitors, researchers said.
Such impaired blood flow, called ischemia, is ...