Whether a patient experiences pain a year after a heart attack -- and not necessarily heart pain -- may predict a person’s long-term survival.
has not yet been examined in large studies,” said study author Linda Vixner, an associate professor of medical science at the School of Health and Welfare at Dalarna University in Falun, Sweden.Vixner's team members analyzed the health data for more than 18,300 adults who had a heart attack, from the Swedish registry called SWEDEHEART.
Patients who had moderate pain were 35% more likely than those with no pain to die from any cause during the study period of 8.5 years. About 65% of the participants experiencing pain at the two-month follow-up were also experiencing pain at their 12-month follow up. This was an indicator of persistent and long-term pain.
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