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RISK FACTORS FOR ANGINA
Age
Over all, among the 7,735 men in the British Regional Heart Study, the heart attack rate was 6.2 per 1,000 men per year. The rate was 2 per 1,000 per year for the forty to forty-four year-olds, gradually rising to 10 per 1,000 per year in the fifty-five to fifty-nine year-olds. Forty percent of the cases were fatal, and about half of the deaths happened within an hour of the start of the chest pain. These results were a major stimulus to today’s coronary care service. Suffice it to say that many lives are now saved by the emergency ambulance service paramedics who aim to reach every reported chest pain within fifteen minutes with full emergency equipment on board.
Although ex-smokers in the British Regional Heart Study still retained twice the risk of a heart attack than those who never smoked, stopping did reduce the chances of an attack. Smokers were at much higher risk of a heart attack than nonsmokers and ex-smokers.
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