Sept. 11 Set Off Heart Disturbances Far and Wide
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NEW YORK  - In the month following the  September 11th, 2001 attacks, there was a spate of heart rhythm  disturbances in cardiac patients -- even those living far from  the disaster sites.
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For the first month or so after my heart attack (at age 38, no family history, no obvious risk factors apart from being a man), I left the light on at night and cried myself to sleep. Having been startled by my own mortality -- the inevitability of it, the unfairness of it -- I was certain I was ...
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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In recent years, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have entered public spaces to treat someone suffering what bystanders may assume is a heart attack: Clutching the chest, the victim collapses, unconscious.
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Most of the health problems reported after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have involved respiratory difficulties and mental distress, according to a U.S. government report published on Wednesday.
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Stress can prove fatal for people with &#39;faulty wiring&#39; between the brain and the heart, research has suggested. Those at risk could suffer heart failure at emotionally stressful events such as family gatherings or New Year parties, experts warn.
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After operating on former President Clinton&#39;s heart, his doctors said his arteries were so severely clogged that a major heart attack was not far off.
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A new study suggests that people under high pressure to meet deadlines at work are six times more likely to suffer a heart attack in the 24 hours following the high pressure event.
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NEW YORK Working in a high-pressure environment on tight deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of having a heart attack, a new study published on Tuesday shows.
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Stress brought on by the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 led to heart problems for some Americans, even if they had no personal connection to the events, a study released on Monday found.
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Families of 9/11 victims yesterday reacted with shock, sympathy - and anger â-fter a Georgia man killed himself at Ground Zero on his 25th birthday because he was distraught over President Bush&#39;s re-election.
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A new survey of Sept. 11-related illnesses has found an alarming increase in asthma &#151; 12 times higher than normal &#151; among those who toiled on the toxic debris piles of ground zero.
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Chronic noise exposure may increase your risk of heart attack, according to German researchers who interviewed more than 4,000 heart attack patients admitted to Berlin hospitals between 1998 and 2001.
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One of the world&#39;s widest studies into heart attacks has identified nine risk factors that account for nine out of 10 of all cardiac arrests, with cholesterol, smoking and stress topping the table.
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According to a study in Thursday&#39;s New England Journal of Medicine, air pollution not only causes long-term health problems, but might also trigger heart attacks.
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(New York -WABC, November 22, 2004) - Shortness of breath, wheezing, persistent coughs, throat irritation, and sinus problems. They are ailments that continue to plague thousands of people who worked or lived in Lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2001.
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The stress and air pollution greatly heighten the risk for a heart attack, researchers surmised. By Lee Bowman. Being stuck in traffic raises the risk of having a heart attack within the hour almost threefold, according to a study published today.