Monterey, CA Heart Attack Risk Can Be Reduced With Diet And Lifestyle Change

Heart surgeons joke that if they are going to have a heart attack, the best place to do so is around other physicians.  A new study shows that this is not so.  Published in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that survival rates were better for cardiac arrest patients at teaching hospitals while national cardiologists were away at a national convention.  The reason for this is pure conjecture.  However, the study speculated that those who didn’t attend the convention were likely to use less invasive techniques (perhaps stents rather than open heart surgery).  Unfortunately, when someone has a heart attack they have little or no input into what form of treatment they will get.   Therefore, the best advice I can give is to have regular checkups and try and change your diet and lifestyle so that you lower your risk of getting a heart attack in the first place.