Does anybody know, if someone had a heart attack once, is it a bigger risk of having the second heart attack?

Question

After the stents had been placed on.

Answer 1

Well, people with known coronary artery disease (and having had a heart attack, regardless of what treatment was given, puts a person in this category) is a very potent risk factor for future heart disease, so yes, but not because of the heart attack per se, but because of the conditions that lead to it.
Stents are great, and they can help with symptoms, but there is no evidence to suggest that they save lives, they don't protect against future heart attacks (although the stents themselves usually stay open, the unstented coronary arteries often develop disease).
Anyone who has had a heart attack should be under the care of a cardiologist and should do everything he can to reduce his risk factors, no smoking, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure aggressively, exercise, diet, weight loss, and tight control of diabetes for those who have it to reduce, as much as possible, the chances of having another heart attack.

Answer 2

It is not necessarily a bigger risk, you are definitely at risk for having another. If you have coronary artery disease, that indicates that the arteries that supply your heart with oxygen are developing blockages. The blockages could be be caused from aging, your cholesterol is high, you smoke, you were born into a family with bad genes, you don't exercise, or all of the above. The stents are just scaffolding that hold the walls of your arteries open after the blockage has been opened, but they don't prevent your arteries from blocking somewhere else. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Absolutely! Both drug eluting stent manufacturers are under the watchful eye of the FDA right now because they are associated with many deaths.
Once you have a heart attack a portion of the heart actually dies however, after the first the heart can somewhat accommodate it! Each additional heart attack destroys more of the heart muscle making it more and more dangerous and lethal.

Answer 4

Yes. The fact that someone had a heart attack greatly increases the statistical risk they will suffer a second. Medication and any exercises the doctor may prescribe can reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of a second attack.

Answer 5

Yes! It is definitely a bigger risk of having a second heart attack. When you have a heart attack it actually temporarily kills your muscle [heart]. Sometimes causing damages. So killing the muscle for a second time and getting everything back to normal again is of course a bigger risk. Seeing as you're dangerously damaging such an important muscle for a second time.

Answer 6

I just read in a magazine that once someone has had a heart attack they are susceptable to having a second heart attack.

Answer 7

Anybody with a history of previous M.I. is at increased risk for another one.

Answer 8

yes one can have another heart attack
BUT chances are less if you follow Drs diet given to you as well as taking your heart meds

Answer 9

YES.
HAVIN G ONE GREATLY INCREASES CHANCE OF ANOTHER.