Painful Heart Attack recovery
There are millions of heart attacks each year and fortunately with today’s accurate diagnosis and superb treatments many people survive a heart attack. But have you ever questioned what happens after the episode. Do you think people leave hospital and continue happily with their daily lives. This is not the case as a recent American study showed that despite people having major heart surgery they still suffer from frequent bouts of chest pain and angina sometimes on a daily basis.
Around 2000 people participated in this study and it is assumed that the major causes of persisting chest pain are related to smoking and depressive thoughts. Smoking itself is a major risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks in general. Almost 20% of the people in the study still had pain on a weekly basis and a small few, under 20 of them had pain once daily. Of these people most were smokers and suffered from some form of depression. Depression is a common side effect of heart attack. Many individuals fear a further heart attack or death in the near future. Therefore treatment of those who have suffered a heart attack should involve conselling ensuring individuals reduce their risk of having a further myocardial infarction through reduction of depressive thoughts and reduction and elimination of other risk factors such as smoking and obesity.
This study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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