Heart Assn. Offers New Guidelines for Victims
From Times Wire Reports
The American Heart Assn. is revising its prevention guidelines for heart attack survivors to recommend wider use of beta blockers and drugs called ACE inhibitors, along with more aggressive control of risk factors.
The guidelines, recommended jointly with the American College of Cardiology, are to be published in today’s issue of Circulation, an AHA journal.
A major change in the guidelines recommends that women not be prescribed estrogen solely to prevent strokes and heart disease, because of growing evidence that the supplements might cause harm.
