HEALTH TIPS: Where you live – or die
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“Where you live – or die”
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Cardiac Arrest (National Library of Medicine)
Where you live can affect whether you live. Researchers who looked at cases of cardiac arrest – when the heart stops beating – found people in some parts of the country were more likely to survive than were people in others.
“Someone in one community is 200 percent more likely to have cardiac arrest and 500 percent more likely to die when they have cardiac arrest.’’
One key difference is being around people who know and can do CPR.
The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Health Tip courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Last revised: November, 18 2008