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Shortness of Breath May Be Heart Disease
(AP, 11/2/05)
When Dr. Daniel S. Berman and his team at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles reviewed the medical records of
17,991 patients who had taken stress tests, the researchers
found that patients reporting shortness of breath were
significantly more likely to die within the next few years.
The scientists concluded that having trouble breathing is just
as important an indicator of cardiac problems as the most
relied on symptom, chest pain.
(New England Journal of Medicine,
2005) |
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