Half of all heart attack survivors have a damaged heart called low ejection fraction.
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He said that standard practice in the UK was to assess all heart attack patients for suitability for thrombolysis irrespective of their age.
It is not clear the additional expense and higher complication rate of the new gadget is worth it for all heart patients, doctors say.
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As just one example of many, half of all heart attack survivors have a damaged heart and suffer from heart failure, a condition my father had and died from some decades ago.
Half of all heart disease patients don't even have high cholesterol, a fact that confounds the layman's myth that heart attacks are caused by cholesterol clogging up the body's plumbing like grease in pipes.
Cholesterol is clearly not the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease -- half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol -- but the accuracy of CRP as a predictor of cardiac risk has been disputed.
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"I want to thank Pep with all my heart for everything he has given me in my professional career and personally, " the 24-year-old wrote.
Think of all the hard work and all the heart you put into a cause that you believed in for years -- for years.
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"I love Richard with all my heart, " a teary-eyed Carol Beasley testified during the sentencing phase of the trial of her son, 53-year-old Richard Beasley.
"I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart, " said Brownback, a Roman Catholic.
Prospects that come ready made with all the heart-ache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to which they in turn inevitably inflict upon the salesman.
And I did it just because I loved to sing, and I loved gospel music, and I loved God with all my heart, even at a young age.
One of our finest young leaders, Arkansas Democratic Chair Bill Gwatney, who believed with all his heart that America and the South should be Democratic from top to bottom.
In fact, I'd say it takes much more effort to consciously do than it does to just stay sad, but with all my heart, I cannot tell you how worth it it is.
All these heart attacks took place outside of hospitals.
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We have all seen the heart-rending images of the impact of the disaster, and we have all been shaken by the stories they tell.
"Almost all forms of heart surgery require heparin, " says Mark Stafford-Smith, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist at Duke University.
We yearn, with all of our heart and soul, to express something absolutely pure and indisputably true.
You're so close, yet so far from the ultimate prize which makes it all the more heart-breaking and gut-wrenching.
This I have done because of my personal selfishness and weakness and I love her with all of my heart.
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Underneath it all, the heart of empathetic leadership is acknowledgement and understanding.
Mental toughness, resiliency, resolve and trust are all synonyms for heart.
They make record time in a fleet of small cars, ambu-cycles, ambu-tractors and ambu-boats -- all equipped with heart defibrillators, breathing tubes, burn wraps and maternity kits.
Just like in my recovery and how my parents knew all along my heart was so strong, I would overcome (my accident), I have high hopes for 2016.
All of the heart patients in the study had one of two bad gene variants discovered last year by DeCode that are believed to increase levels of inflammation in the arteries (see: " Attacking Heart Attacks").
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