Pop Science by James Ball

Author:James Ball
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED?

JIMMY RUFFIN

Ruffin, J., changed cardiology forever in 1966 with his deep examination of what happened to those who survive coronary episodes.

Ruffin also shows some enlightenment as to the difficulty of improving such survival rates, singing of searching for solutions but not succeeding, and worrying that all remains are unhappy endings.

Ruffin’s concerns are matched by the clinical evidence into what becomes of the brokenhearted, which we take to mean those who have suffered heart failure. Researchers collected evidence of the outcomes of 54,313 people in the UK who’d had heart attacks over the age of forty-five, and looked at their one-year, five-year, and ten-year survival rates.

The study found that 81.3 percent of the people studied were still alive after one year, 51.5 percent were still going five years later, and 29.5 percent—less than one in three—were still alive a decade after their first heart failure. Worse still, those survival rates had not improved over the fourteen-year period of the analysis.

It should be noted, though, that these figures looked much better for the relatively young patients in the group, more than 80 percent of whom survive five years, and more than two-thirds of whom were still alive after a decade. Ruffin’s study courageously drew the public’s attention to these serious issues, so if—as he stated—he is looking for peace of mind, perhaps he can find some there.

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