In the new study, researchers found that asthma sufferers who take daily medication to prevent attacks, are at high risk of myocardial infarction. Results of the study were presented at the Scientific Session of the American Heart Association in 2014.
Asthma increases the risk of heart attacks
Scientists have studied the health of 543 patients who suffered myocardial infarction, and compared them with the same number of people without heart disease. These patients were treated at a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, between 2002 and 2006., The average age of the patients was 67 years, and 44 percent of them were women.
"After accounting risk of myocardial infarction, such as age, obesity, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, ischemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease history, the results showed that patients with active asthma risk of heart attacks was 70 percent, compared with people with an inactive form of bronchial asthma ", - says the study's lead author, Dr. Young Juhn the clinic Mayo.
"Patients with active asthma in combination with symptoms of angina are at high risk of developing myocardial infarction. Doctors should pay more attention to patients with active asthma, asthma symptoms and control the rational use of drugs to prevent heart attacks, "- says the first author of the study, Dr. Duk Won Bang.
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