The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7390 p256
4 March 2006

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Heart attacks go unrecognised

A third of men and over half of women who suffer a heart attack do not know they have had one, say researchers who examined data from over 4,000 men and women aged 55 years and older for a median follow-up of 6.4 years (published online in the European Heart Journal).