July 29, 2007

Heart Surgery And Your Longevity

window.document.getElementById(’post-125′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Nowadays, heart surgery is commonly performed on patients suffering from heart disease, which is often a threat to longevity. But does heart surgery make you live longer? Is Oriental medicine a better approach to heart disease?According to the most recent report from Journal of the American Medical Association, at least 12,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary surgery, and tens of thousands more suffer complications as a result.Every year in the United States, surgeons perform 1.2 million angioplasties, during which a cardiologist uses tiny balloons and implanted wire cages known as stents to unclog arteries. This Roto-Rooter-type approach is less invasive and has a shorter recovery period than bypass, which is open-heart surgery.Nevertheless, a surgery is still a trauma, and the body responds to it with major blood loss and swelling, and all manner of nerve and pain signals that can plague the patient for months, if not years.Research has indicated that angioplasty did not appear to prevent heart attacks or save lives among non-emergency heart subjects. If that is the case, then why the surgery?Dr. William Boden of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, New York, and author of the study also added: […]

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