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Heart Attack Patients Experience Extreme Stress--YA THINK?
Stupid study of the week time. Distress, fear often beset heart attack patients:
A substantial number of patients in the initial stages of a heart attack or severe chest pain crisis -- events lumped together as "acute coronary syndrome" or ACS -- experience extreme stress and fear of dying. This can lead to long-lasting depression and anxiety, according to a new study.
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The factors that trigger depression after a heart attack "differ in several respects from those for depression in general," Steptoe's team notes. "Greater understanding may accrue from more precise delineation of the trajectory of emotional responses, including factors preceding symptom onset, acute fear and distress during the early symptomatic phase, and later development of depression and anxiety."
They needed a study for this?! I'm nearly four years post heart attack and I'm STILL depressed and frightened, though not nearly as badly. Honest to crimony. There are times I really wonder about Western medicine and this is one of them.
Categories: heart_attack, study, depression, stress, anxiety
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Let's find new ways to state the obvious
I noticed in the 90s it seemed like every six months or so a new study would come out in some magazine or other saying that "men and women are DIFFERENT!" Well, DUH! Also, an article in Newsweek in the late 80s: "the mind and body are CONNECTED!" Again, DUH!
Ridiculous elucidations of the obvious...this must be how medical researchers look busy so as to keep their jobs.
Anhata
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Just to be devil's advocate
Has anyone seen the people skills of the average med school graduate? This might actually be news to some of them (shudder).
Reminds me of the time a surgeon I am acquainted with, while recovering from a heart attack of his own, noted with surprise that a median sternotomy (cutting open the sternum to get at the heart) "hurts like hell" contrary to all that's said about how well patients tolerate it.
that's what I'm thinking
Doctors have-- and are TAUGHT-- some pretty crazy ideas.
"tolerate" in dr-speak
...only means the survival rate is good. Some doctors of course are a little thick in the head on the concept.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
whose uncle is a retired ER doc and survivor of 6 heart attacks...
So True
Just after I had 9 lb. 9 oz. and 23 inch long DS15 a friend who was a nursing professor sent me the results of a study done at her university that said women who have large babies tent to have more difficult deliveries. She wrote a very funny snarky note on it to the effect that it must have been challenging to figure that one out. Honestly.
well, to tell the truth...
I've heard the opposite from some who've had both big and small. That it doesn't make too much difference. That study, I can see where it came from.
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