{"id":11624,"date":"2016-08-04T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2016-08-03T19:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:10:45","slug":"american-heart-association-new-initiative-aims-to-reduce-repeat-heart-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/08\/04\/american-heart-association-new-initiative-aims-to-reduce-repeat-heart-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heart Association New Initiative aims to reduce repeat Heart Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56563\" title=\"American Heart Association\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American-Heart-Association-new-logo-480x230.jpg\" alt=\"American Heart Association\" width=\"240\" height=\"115\" \/><strong>Dallas, TX<\/strong> &#8211; Every 42 seconds someone in the U.S. has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/HeartAttack\/AboutHeartAttacks\/About-Heart-Attacks_UCM_002038_Article.jsp#.V5-8JU0UXIU\" title=\"heart attack\"  target=\"_blank\">heart attack<\/a>. Just after noon on March 26th, 2016, Julie Kubala, become one of those statistics.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s working now to ensure she doesn\u2019t become a different one \u2013 about 21 percent of women and 17 percent of men age 45 and older will have another heart attack within five years of their first one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_317241\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Heart-illustration.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317241\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-317241\" title=\"Heart Illustration. (American Heart Association)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Heart-illustration-480x234.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Illustration. (American Heart Association)\" width=\"480\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-317241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heart Illustration. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->To help Kubala and others like her, the American Heart Association has launched a new educational campaign aimed at reducing the number of repeat or recurrent heart attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to arm survivors with a few simple, but effective action steps that can lower their risk of having another heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message is simple: don\u2019t wait for a second heart attack,\u201d said Alice Jacobs, M.D., former AHA president and chair of the advisory group overseeing the new initiative. \u201cResearch shows there are some very clear things you can do to lower your chances of having another event.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/HeartAttack\/TreatmentofaHeartAttack\/Cardiac-Medications_UCM_303937_Article.jsp#.V5-9K00UXIU\" title=\"Take medication as directed\"  target=\"_blank\">Take medication as directed<\/a> \u2014 More than a third of heart disease patients don\u2019t follow their medication treatment plans; more than a third of medication-related hospital readmissions are caused by people not taking their medicine as they should.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/More\/ConsumerHealthCare\/Doctor-Appointments-Questions-to-Ask-Your-Doctor_UCM_452929_Article.jsp#.V592d00UXIU\" title=\"Have a follow-up doctor\u2019s appointment\"  target=\"_blank\">Have a follow-up doctor\u2019s appointment<\/a> \u2014 Heart attack survivors who don\u2019t have a timely follow-up with their doctor may be up to 10 times more likely to be rehospitalized.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/More\/CardiacRehab\/Cardiac-Rehab_UCM_002079_SubHomePage.jsp\" title=\"Complete a cardiac rehabilitation program\"  target=\"_blank\">Complete a cardiac rehabilitation program<\/a> \u2014 One study found that heart patients who completed cardiac rehab were 42 percent less likely to die than those who did not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/HeartAttack\/UnderstandYourRiskstoPreventaHeartAttack\/Understand-Your-Risks-to-Prevent-a-Heart-Attack_UCM_002040_Article.jsp#.V5920E0UXIU\" title=\"Manage risk factors\"  target=\"_blank\">Manage risk factors<\/a> \u2014 Reducing risk factors like physical inactivity, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and obesity lowers the chance of having a heart attack or needing heart surgery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/supportnetwork.heart.org\/heart-attack\" title=\"Develop a strong support system\"  target=\"_blank\">Develop a strong support system<\/a> \u2014 People with low perceived social support have worse outcomes after a heart attack, including higher likelihood of death or other cardiac events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kubala, 48, of Superior, Wisconsin, is only four months out from her heart attack. She goes to cardiac rehab and is learning the importance of being proactive to take control of her health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew my family history of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes. What hadn\u2019t really hit me was our family history of heart disease, or how all of that can be related,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t see the forest for the trees. Now I\u2019m determined to do all I can to get healthy and to stay healthy, but it\u2019s not easy to keep on top of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[320left]Jacobs, Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center, said making it easier for patients and their healthcare providers to know, understand and follow research-based clinical guidelines is a key element of the association\u2019s Guidelines Transformation and Optimization initiative, under which the new heart attack campaign falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a heart attack can obviously be very traumatic, and afterwards patients and families can have a difficult time processing all that has happened, and all that needs to happen to get better,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cAll the questions to answer, the instructions to remember and the medical terms to understand can be overwhelming. We want to help by providing simple, easy to follow steps, easy to use tools and trackers that can help people not just recover fully from this heart attack, but prevent a future one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Information and tools for patients, their families and their healthcare teams will be developed and rolled out over the next year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/heartattackrecovery\" title=\"Heart.org\/HeartAttackRecovery\"  target=\"_blank\">Heart.org\/HeartAttackRecovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American Heart Association\u2019s Guideline Transformation and Optimization initiative is a comprehensive, coordinated approach to accelerate guidelines into clinical practice. By activating medical professionals to leverage science faster and measure clinical effectiveness, while empowering patients and caregivers to better manage health and participate in care coordination, the American Heart Association will help to drive better health outcomes and patient satisfaction. The initiative is supported by an educational grant from AstraZeneca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX &#8211; Every 42 seconds someone in the U.S. has a heart attack. Just after noon on March 26th, 2016, Julie Kubala, become one of those statistics. She\u2019s working now to ensure she doesn\u2019t become a different one \u2013 about 21 percent of women and 17 percent of men age 45 and older will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,10687,88,4030,216,2542,215,369,941,11191],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-astrazeneca","tag-cholesterol","tag-dallas-tx","tag-diabetes","tag-heart-attack","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-obesity","tag-smoking","tag-superior-wi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11625,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}