Hope Can Prevent Future Attacks.Patients who remain optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op and cope positively after coronary coronary /cor·o·nary/ (kor´o-nar?e) encircling like a crown; applied to vessels, ligaments, etc., especially to the arteries of the heart, and to pathologic involvement of them. cor·o·nar·y adj. angioplasty angioplasty (ăn`jēōplăs'tē), any surgical repair of a blood vessel, especially balloon angioplasty or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a treatment of coronary artery disease. can significantly reduce their risk of a future heart attack. New research from the National Institutes of Health has found that heart patients who found ways to develop a positive outlook on their situation and ways to control it were three times less likely to experience heart-related complications in the six months after an initial angioplasty. |
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