"One passenger thought she was having a heart attack and the flight attendants calmed her down, and it turned out she wasn't having a heart attack, she was just very nervous, " Haynes said.
Their ultimate goal is to develop a fast technique that can be used to start repairing the heart on the operating table immediately following a heart attack, ultimately improving the survival rates for heart attack patients.
The idea is that they could be used to repair the heart after a heart attack or reverse the progress of Alzheimer's disease.
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But even if it had been, that may not have helped: How would a doctor know to report a heart attack that had been caused by Vioxx, if it looked no different from any other heart attack?
For example, fresh nerve cells could alleviate spinal-cord injuries, or newly made heart cells could repair a site scarred by a heart attack.
Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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Unlike previous researchers, these authors found no link between depression and heart disease or a heart attack.
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Secondary factors such as misinterpreting the attack as a heart attack or impending madness, and avoiding situations that might trigger panic attacks interfered with the person's life more than the actual panic attack itself.
Previous studies have suggested that fish oil capsules could lower heart risks in people with heart failure or who have already suffered a heart attack.
Depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and previous research has indicated that depression more than triples the risk of dying within the subsequent six months after a heart attack.
In healthy people, an adrenaline surge can trigger irregular heart rhythms and in those with heart conditions, the surge could trigger a heart attack.
Heart risk wasn't significantly affected in patients with a parent who had a heart attack at the age of 60 or older.
This is a medicine to prevent heart attacks and strokes in patients who suffer acute coronary syndrome, the condition that occurs after a heart attack or serious heart-related chest pain.
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Astoundingly, the women who did not vacation annually were almost eight times more likely to develop coronary heart disease or have a heart attack.
But a similar patient with a parent who had a heart attack before age 60 had a 20% risk, putting that patient at high risk for heart disease.
"If someone comes in with epilepsy, a seizure or a heart attack, then we've got to deal with it, " he said.
Compared with those eating the low-fat diet, the extra-virgin-olive-oil group showed a 30% lower risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying of heart disease after five years, while those consuming the Mediterranean diet with more nuts showed a 28% lower risk of these outcomes.
In sum, the small numbers in this study combined with the kind of data collected (limited baseline data, no details of drink ingredient differences) and the narrow demographics do not support the contention that drinking diet soft drinks is going to put you at a risk for a heart attack.
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Figures from the British Heart Foundation show smoking just three to six cigarettes a day doubles the chances of having a heart attack.
He showed a brief original clip of a "Heart Attack" -- cheerful dancers in cartoon-heart costumes, making people smile by engulfing them on a California boardwalk.
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But they did find that people with anxiety had more than double the risk of heart disease and two-and-a-half times the risk of suffering a heart attack.
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Looking at firefighter heart attack deaths nationwide over a decade, the researchers found that the risk of heart attack is highest when firefighters are working at a fire scene with increased odds ranging from 10 to 100 times the normal risk of heart attack.
When a friend died of a heart attack in 1975, he realized he needed to get in shape.
Emily Watts, 26, from Lavenham, crashed into a snowdrift and suffered a heart attack near Chamonix on Saturday.
Emily Watts, 26, from Lavenham, Suffolk, crashed into a snowdrift and suffered a heart attack near Chamonix on Saturday.
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Emily Watts, 26, from Lavenham, crashed into a snowdrift and suffered a heart attack near Chamonix on 8 December.
This fact hit Windsor hard in 2009, while in a hospital after suffering a heart attack a month after Spyer's death.
That could make the medicine, the first of its kind, indispensable to patients with a high risk of a heart attack.
King, 78, suffered a stroke and a mild heart attack last August.
Oz strolled over to a flat-screen monitor and explained that he was about to present a graphic of what a heart attack looks like from the inside.
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