Sponsored by:Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Heart attack! One of the leading killers in America. It can be treated and prevented. Effective and economical treatments for people who have had heart attacks or who have had heart attacks or who have hypertension (high blood pressure, exist and have been consistently proven in Clinical trick. Treatments like aspirin, thermbolytic (clot dissolving) therapy, Beta Blocker therapy and Ace inhibitors have been around for many years and in light of clinical evidence appear to be more effective than some of the newer, more popular treatments, like Calcium Channel Blocker therapy. There may be several reasons why physicians are not using these cost effective therapies. General practitioners may not be keeping up with current clinical trials and pharmaceutical companies may be persuading the doctors to abandon the tried and true treatments, and replace them with the new and more profitable ones.