A major new study, partially funded by the company, has found that having a heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other serious long-term health conditions.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the University of Leeds conducted a study of more than 145 million cases across all adult patients admitted to hospital to establish long-term health outcomes for patients after a heart attack. records were analyzed over a nine-year period.

Improved survival rate

Heart attacks can be serious and life-threatening, but today more than 7 out of 10 people can survive if they receive treatment as soon as possible. Previous research has shown that a heart attack can cause additional symptoms that affect the heart, circulatory system, and other physical and mental health conditions.

New research, which we partially funded with the Wellcome Trust, shows that patients who had a heart attack developed further symptoms at a much higher rate than people of the same age and gender who had not had a heart attack. It shows.

Up to a third of people who experienced a heart attack went on to develop heart or kidney failure, 7% had another heart attack, and 38% died of any cause during the nine-year study period.

Conditions such as heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke all occurred more frequently in people who had a heart attack than in those who did not. However, the overall risk of cancer was lower, and the risk of dementia remained unchanged overall.

The impact of inequality

The study also found that people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds were more likely to die or develop serious long-term health conditions after a heart attack. In particular, people from more advantaged backgrounds were more likely to develop heart failure and kidney failure than people of the same age from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Researchers analyzed the records of all individuals aged 18 and over who were admitted to any of England’s 229 NHS trusts between January 1, 2008 and January 31, 2017. This equates to 145,912,852 hospitalizations out of 34,116,257 people. There were 433,361 reports of people having their first heart attack. The average age of heart attack patients was 67 years, and 66 percent of patients were male.

The study looked at 11 non-fatal health outcomes and deaths from any cause and compared the results with a control group of 2,001,310 people.

Health outcomes after a heart attack

The study showed a significantly increased risk of developing any symptoms after a heart attack compared to patients in the control group.

One of the conditions most likely to develop after a heart attack is heart failure, with 29.6 percent of the study group developing the condition within nine years after the heart attack. By comparison, he was 9.8 percent in the control group over the same period.

Renal failure developed in 27.2% of patients in the study group, compared with 19.8% in the control group and 22.3% in the study group (16.8% in the control group).

Professor Brian Williams, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, said: After a particularly severe heart attack, the heart may be left with irreversible damage, increasing the risk of heart failure.

“This study further reveals how heart attacks are associated with an increased risk of developing other serious health conditions such as heart failure and atrial fibrillation. It was also found that people in a poor environment were at higher risk of developing further health conditions after a heart attack and at a younger age. This suggests that they may benefit from additional support and monitoring.

“It is vital that the NHS has the resources, including the staff, infrastructure and equipment, to provide the care patients need to help them maintain the best possible health for the long term.”

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