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Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Heart Attack(Free Handout)


Long-Term Treatment

The goals of long-term treatment are to facilitate healing within the heart, to make it easier for the heart to function effectively, and to decrease the risk for future heart attacks. Medications may include aspirin and beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors.

Patients who have had a heart attack should not smoke. Smoking cessation substantially reduces the risk for heart attack Within one year of quitting...Read the full article