Every year, 1,255,000 Americans are stricken by heart attack. Many had no prior symptoms. Advances in medical science can help physicians indentify these patients at risk many years before a heart attack occurs and effective preventive treatment implemented early.

Updated 2009 AHA Heart Attack Statistics

• 785,000 Americans will have a new heart attack

• 470,000 will have a recurrent heart attack

• 195,00 will have a silent heart attack

• Largest single killer of American males and females

• 15 years - the estimated average number of years lost due to heart attack

• People who survive the acute stage of a heart attack have a chance of illness or death that's 1.5 to 15 times higher than the general population - therefore, become higher utilizers of healthcare resources.

• Operations and procedures in 2006

  - 1,313,000 inpatient coronary percutaneous interventions (stent)

  - 448,000 heart bypass

  - 1,115,000 inpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterizations

  - 773,000 hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome

You Tube Patient Mentoring Series:

 1. How Plaques in the Arteries Develop

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2. How Statin Medications Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke

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3. How Effective is Evidenced-based Medical Therapy in Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke      

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