How to Lower the Risk of Repeat Heart Attacks

The diet's role in heart disease

There was a terrific article by Jennifer Corbett Dooren in the Wall Street Journal about this subject. She correctly states that patients with heart disease frequently assume that medication is enough to reduce the risk of a repeat heart attack of stroke, but details a large new  five-year study of 32,000 people in 40 countries that shows the preventive power of a healthy diet.

How a healthy diet leads to a healthy heart

That study found that people with the healthiest diets--fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and fish-- were 35% less likely to die from a repeat heart attack or stroke.  They were also 28% less likely to develop congestive heart failure, 14% less likely to have an additional heart attack and 19% less likely to have a stroke. Since heart disease is the top killer of Americans, according to the American Heart Association, the article details of the diet recommendations of the researchers.

The complete article is available at online.wsj.com/ health and wellness, Dec. 3, 2012.


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