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...first clue is often the catastrophe itself: a fatal heart attack. But the events that set the stage for disaster, like those preceding an earthquake, have been occurring for years beneath the surface, painless and unnoticed. The culprit is silent ischemia, an intermittent interruption of blood flow to the heart, which kills tens of thousands of seemingly healthy Americans each year. Doctors estimate that the condition, undetected, exists in an additional 3 million to 4 million people known to have heart disease and further increases the likelihood they will suffer a heart attack...
...Cardiologist Sidney Gottlieb, examined 103 heartattack patients who seemed to be recovering without complications or pain and found that 30 were having ischemic episodes. One year later nine (30%) of these people had died from heart attacks. Of the 73 without silent ischemia, only eight (11%) had suffered fatal heart attacks. "If you have had a heart attack and you have ischemia," Gottlieb concluded, "you may have a three times greater risk of dying...
Having children can sometimes be a trial. But a study revealed at the Dallas meeting last week by Epidemiologist Evelyn Talbott suggests that not having offspring can lead to far more serious consequences. Childless women over 50, she reported, may be at greater risk for sudden, fatal heart attacks than their contemporaries who are mothers...
...movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
...with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, cancer or a suppressed immune response; parents or siblings of children who are at risk; anyone under age 18 who must take aspirin (the combination of aspirin and a viral infection has been linked to a sometimes fatal brain disorder called Reye's syndrome). People over 35 who are at risk and all those over 65 who are otherwise healthy need take only the standard flu shot...