Less Than One In Five Heart Problems Are Diagnosed Before Symptoms Appear

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 19:21 in Health & Medicine

A study of nearly 14,000 people shows that clinicians are missing golden opportunities to identify heart disease before patients start displaying symptoms. Researchers found that just over 11% of the respondents had been diagnosed with heart disease. However, only 19% of those said that their heart disease was picked up during routine screening.

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