A wake-up call of the heart

Frank Renella taught that a high school music class when he had call a wake-up, which changed his life. Frank felt the pain in his chest and left work early.

If worse at home, he was the pain of ambulances rushed to the hospital. Frank's greatest fear came true, when the doctors said that he had a heart attack.

"My heart attack was really a wake up call," said Renella, a resident of 42-year-old New Jersey, which was a paramedic by the life-changing after his heart attack, he is on the front of health care could. "I went through a lot of emotions and was concerned that a second attack." So now I make sure the right medicine and working with my doctor to live a heart healthy way of life. "Frank's story is not unusual." A new survey of more than 500 heart attack survivors found survivors their attack as a wake up call indicating that them a second chance on life was. Most of the survivors said she left their heart attack but also with feelings of depression and hopelessness. In fact, survivors said that they feared an other heart attack more than death. Although he had feelings of survivors, 40 percent said that they do not everything she could to prevent another attack. This fact is worrying, because one will have a heart attack by five men and a third women in the next six years.

"I see this survey, the results to the life in my practice every day come." While many of my patients, suffered the heart attack have very consciously and fear of their increased risk that another are not they do everything to a heart healthy life. The good news is that they prevent if they take certain steps, another attack. I say to eat my patients healthy, exercise and to take their medication. Can this medication are drugs, an ACE inhibitor and aspirin, statins, "Dr. William Abraham said, Director of the Department of cardiovascular medicine at the Ohio State University Medical Center."

In the survey, the heart attack said 80 percent of survivors that they needed more information to learn about their heart health. As a result a national heart restored heart, began support of the patients group the American Heart Association, a program called "honest wake-up call." This program provides training and support survivors and their families for heart attack. Visit tips to the "honest life" and "sincere support," such as details of local support groups, tip sheet, survivor stories, and heart healthy recipes, www.mendedhearts.org.

GlaxoSmithKline provides funding and support for the development of "honest wake-up call."

"I patient promote health to heart,", said Abraham.