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Article: PROCARDIA KILLS THOUSANDS WITHOUT A WARNING
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- April 26, 1989
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Silent coronary heart disease kills without warning. Its
victims often experience no pain until the cataclysmic moment occurs,
and by that time it may be too late to help.
Last year in Oklahoma County alone, about 2,245 individuals had
heart attacks and died without exhibiting any symptoms beforehand.
There are researchers who are saying now that more than 1,700 of
these deaths could have been prevented.
Nationally, about five million people are thought to be affected
by coronary heart disease. As many as 300,000 die suddenly, many of
them without ever experiencing pain.
Evidence for what doctors have suspected was happening comes
from a two-year study of this phenomenon, ...