Heart attack patients continue to smoke and do not follow diet and exercise advice: research

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 1:22PM GMT twenty-three February 2010

A investigate in the biography Circulation found that some-more than a entertain of heart conflict sufferers did not imitate with diet and practice recommendation even though it can revoke the risk of a second conflict by half.

Almost all had been prescribed drug to revoke the risk of a second heart conflict nonetheless one third of smokers had not quit.

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Professor Guy De Backer from the Department of Public Health at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, said: "These formula prove that we contingency give some-more courtesy to lifestyle alteration but this and alternative studies show that it is not simply achieved, even after a heart attack."