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Friday, July 04, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
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People who have already had one heart attack could die from a second because they know so little about the disease, a joint Australian–US study has shown. The first large-scale international study to assess the knowledge of heart patients about their disease revealed poor levels of knowledge about symptoms and what to do when experiencing symptoms. High-risk cardiac patients also have inaccurate perceptions of their future risk of a heart attack.    (source: newsroom.uts.edu.au)


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