In that group, doctors typically still administer drugs and
often perform
angioplasty once the heart attack is diagnosed.
Angioplasty patients who were given three B-vitamins to lower their
homocysteine levels were 32 percent less likely to have a "major
adverse event"--that includes death, a heart attack, or the need to
repeat the
angioplasty--over the next year.
New research from the National Institutes of Health has found
that heart patients who found ways to develop a positive outlook on
their situation and ways to control it were three times less likely to
experience heart-related complications in the six months after an
initial
angioplasty.
