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Article: KEEP EXERCISING AFTER HEART ATTACK.(AT HOME)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2001
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Byline: Steve Infanti
Q: I had a heart attack two years ago. Maintaining a physically active lifestyle is encouraged to help prevent a heart attack. Now that I have had one, are there any benefits to maintaining this type of lifestyle?
A: Yes, being physically active after a first heart attack appears to significantly lower the risk of death or a second heart attack. There was some recent research on this topic in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
''Patients who kept physically active after a first heart attack had a 60 percent lower risk of fatal heart attack or a second nonfatal heart attack than those who did not,'' says Lyn ...
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