Almost 60 per cent of those patients had at least one pre-existing health condition at the time of their heart attack. The researchers looked at the association between seven common chronic diseases and mortality rates following a heart attack. Those conditions were: diabetes, chronic obstructive p...
Doctoral student and researcher Petur Petursson investigated the connection between blood sugar disorders and survival following heart attacks and cardiac arrest. His thesis shows that patients with diabetes have a smaller chance of surviving in-hospitalcardiac arrest. Diabetes and pre-diabetes are also ...
Public-access defibrillators double the chances of surviving heart attackDaniel Q. Haney
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