Heart Attack also attack Spouse too

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Copenhagen: Spouses of heart attack victims are the sufferers too, even if their partner survives a heart attack, according to Danish Researchers.</b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9dAakLTs-CypnQJpVGalaGpi7hRb62PALVGutZzz-_pF2FRkmc9Dk8LyW2s48uojRWpHuLkjaSoXAH6ibQcgxK73QOazhsiBCWQgdCzp7hE1Qp0kXnLWOLt0bsSwzJ9_GCpCPjljsb0/s1600/heart+attack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9dAakLTs-CypnQJpVGalaGpi7hRb62PALVGutZzz-_pF2FRkmc9Dk8LyW2s48uojRWpHuLkjaSoXAH6ibQcgxK73QOazhsiBCWQgdCzp7hE1Qp0kXnLWOLt0bsSwzJ9_GCpCPjljsb0/s1600/heart+attack.jpg" /></a></div>Partners are three times more likely to start using anti depressants after losing their spouse because of a heart attack, study further discovered.<br /> <br /> Even if the partner survives a heart attack, the use of anti depressants still increased by 17% as compared to the last year's use.<br /> <br /> Maureen Talbot, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "A heart attack can impact the whole family, and this study emphasizes the importance of caring for the partners of  heart attack sufferers.<br /> <br /> "We know that people can feel free anxious or helpless when a loved one has a heart attack. it is essential they recieved the emotional and practical support they need during this often traumatic time."<br /> <br /> Report Author Dr Emil Fosbol, from Duke University Medical Centre, Said, " This is a major public health issue for which there seems to be very little awareness among doctors and policy makers.<br /> <br /> "The most important finding of this study is that the system needs to consider the care needs for the spouses too, not only when a patient dies from a [sudden heart attack], but also when the patient is just admitted to hospital [after a sudden heart attack] and survives."<br /> <br /> the research also reveals that the level of depression and anxiety is much higher in the people whose spouses died due to a heart attack than any other disease. This is the first search of its own kind and it also suggest that men suffer more than women.<br /> <br /> view source <a href="http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/08/22/heart-attack-attacks-the-health-of-victims-spouse-too/#.UD33b8FlQt4" target="_blank">thenewstribe</a></div>

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Copenhagen: Spouses of heart attack victims are the sufferers too, even if their partner survives a heart attack, according to Danish Researchers. Partners are three times more likely to start using anti depressants after losing their spouse because …

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