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New Study: Illinois Heart Attack Death Risk Cut in Half by Prevention

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010   

MAYWOOD, Ill. - People in Illinois and around the nation are taking much better care of themselves these days, and it's paying off. According to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, by smoking less and lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, Americans over the past 20 years have cut in half the risk of dying from heart disease. The study found the biggest drop in deaths to come from lifestyle changes, not statins and blood pressure pills.

Dr. John Moran, professor of medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, says this study points out the importance of prevention.

"If you can live a healthy lifestyle, you're better than all of those medications combined."

Dr. Moran says the difference has been showing up in emergency rooms as well. Five or ten years ago, he says, people came in with massive heart attacks; what some refer to as "the big one." Now he says more than half the heart attack patients are coming in with smaller degrees of damage.

Dr. Moran says fewer people are getting struck down by "the big one."

"It's a smaller degree of damage. It's just as serious, but it's not the big heart attack that comes in with shock and heart failure."

The study found that the biggest difference in death rates was the result of healthy changes before a first heart attack. However Dr. Moran says people still can cut their risk of dying by changing their lifestyle after a heart attack.

"They get an angioplasty and a balloon and a lot of harassment about their future."

So does all this good news mean that heart doctors will be out of work soon? Dr. Moran jokes.

"We're all working toward unemployment. But I think we have a long way to go."

He says the next step is to reduce levels of obesity and diabetes which are at record highs in America.


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