A nagging wife can help
you live longer, says the recent study on heart patients. Married heart attack
victims arrived at the hospital half an hour sooner than those who were not
married! However this was
found to be applicable only for men.
Men
often deny or ignore physical symptoms, both their own
and those of their soul mates. A chest pain is often given least importance by
men, while their wives cajole them into visiting a doctor. A wife pushes her
husband to visit a clinic long before a man thinks he needs to go. This
explains why men who experience chest pains while having a heart attack tend to
get to a hospital sooner if they're married or in a common-law relationship.
However married women do not enjoy similar privileges. With respect to the mortality from heart attacks, married women or those in committed relationships were not much different from the single ones.
The researchers explored into the records of 4403 patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) admitted to acute care hospitals. The ones studied were those admitted to the hospital after experiencing chest pains and subsequently treated for a heart attack. Chest pain is a classic symptom of heart attack though it does not always occur. About three-quarters of married people sought treatment within six hours of their first symptoms, compared with 68% of single, 69% of divorced and 71% of widowed people.
An average time gap of 30 minutes was what married men had ahead of the unmarried ones in being rushed to the hospital. Though not error free, the findings are significant. The fact that treatment gap between married and non-married people applied only to men is unfortunate though.
Heart attack - First Aid and Emergency Treatment Guide
Heart attack occurs when blood supply to vital organs gets blocked. A quick and simple first Aid guide on how to administer treatment for Heart attack.
Heart attack occurs when blood supply to vital organs gets blocked. A quick and simple first Aid guide on how to administer treatment for Heart attack.
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Animation of heart attack symptoms
Heart attack can cause symptoms such as Chest pain or discomfort, Shortness of breath and pain in neck, back, arm, or shoulder and is due to blockage of blood supply to the heart muscles
Heart attack can cause symptoms such as Chest pain or discomfort, Shortness of breath and pain in neck, back, arm, or shoulder and is due to blockage of blood supply to the heart muscles
