FOTD: Detecting Heart Disease
Unfortunately detecting heart disease isn’t as easy as it sounds.
Early medical detection and treatment is available, but the effectiveness of this in actually preventing heart attacks is questionable according to a study that was published in the journal Circulation.
In this study, Dr. Lewis Kuller reviewed the medical records of 326 individuals who had received medical examinations within the six month period before they died from a sudden heart attack. Eighty-six of the 326 examinations were done within the seven day period prior to death from heart attack. Not a single one of the 326 heart attacks had been predicted by the physicians.
Those are fairly grim statistics. Be sure you know the warning signs for a heart attack!
Source: Healing with Nutrition, Cardiovascular Disease Facts, Disease Prevention and Treatment Strategies
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