Heart Attacks: Prevent and Survive - Couverture souple

Smith, Dr. Tom

 
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Synopsis

The growing rate of heart disease is a worrying development in the UK. This revised edition covers all aspects of the problems including angina, smoking, exercise and what to do after a heart attack. A new chapter covers the arguments about women and heart attacks. Heart disease is now the commonest cause of death of women in Britian. This is mainly because the risk of heart attacks rises steeply after menopause. Pre-menopausal women are partly protected by their female sex hormones and their bodies' quantity of oestrogen. Tom Smith offers the argument that hormone replacement therapy might keep heart attack rates low. He also draws on recent research which shows that doctors are slower at diagnosing and treating women of heart complaints.

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