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Article: Blood transfusions drastically reduce death in anemic elderly heart attack patients.
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- October 25, 2001
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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 October 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Blood transfusions drastically reduce death in anemic elderly heart attack patients (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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New Haven, Conn. -- Yale researchers have found that giving blood transfusions to anemic elderly heart attack patients significantly improves the survival rate for that group.
"This is the first study to highlight the important link between anemia, blood transfusion and mortality among elderly patients hospitalized for a heart attack," said principal investigator Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the Departments of Medicine and ...