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In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Today’s discussion will focus on the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest.  It is important to know that one can lead to the other—a heart attack can cause cardiac arrest if untreated and severe—, but they are not synonymous.  The Difference Between a Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest Heart attacks are [...]

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will continue to discuss our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Remember why recognizing heart attack causes and symptoms is important: heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. Last week focused on prevention, specifically modifiable risk factors for heart disease. This week will focus on the pathophysiology of heart attacks and symptom recognition. Pathophysiology (what [...]

In this week’s edition of the Heartbeat Blog, we will begin to discuss one our upcoming lecture series on “Assisting Residents with Heart Disease and Promoting Heart Health.” Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women United States? Roughly 610,000 people die of heart disease in the US every year--that equates to one out of every four deaths! Sadly, despite many risk factors that can be modified or eliminated, approximately [...]