A new study estimates that at least 731,000 strokes occur in the United States each year - 40 percent more than the figure usually quoted by the government. While the risk of stroke is about the same for elderly blacks and whites, it is considerably higher for blacks than whites at younger ages. Death rates from stroke are 97 percent higher for younger black males, when compared to younger white males, and 71 percent higher for black females than for white females, according to the American Heart Association's new Heart and Stroke Statistical Update. Using the new standard, the death rate from coronary heart disease in 1996 was 187.1 per 100,000 people, and the death rate from strokes was 63.2 per 100,000. Prognosis was no better for the 1991 group than for the 1981 group.
ACE inhibitors are a class of drugs used to control blood pressure and prevent heart failure.
A study of this phenomenon was conducted by a French team examining over one-year ICU admissions for iatrogenic disease in a General Hospital. They confirmed that illness and injury due to drug side effects or medical procedure is still a major cause of hospitalization. It was determined that 41 of 68 admissions involved adverse drug side affects. Modern medicine has been trying for years to eradicate heart disease with medications for this or that and have been profoundly unsuccessful because the drugs only suppress the symptoms rather than preventing and healing heart disease. It's never too late to start on a program for a healthy heart.