Confirmed Heart Protection Mechanism Among Cardiac Patients

Hmm… I will present this to you with no opinion or comments from me. It seems that researchers out of The Bristol Heart Institute in Britain have confirmed the belief that certain patients that have survived heart attacks and heart disease become more naturally pre-conditioned than their healthy counterparts.

… Discovered surprising responses of the heart to mock cardiac surgery in a mouse model. When the heart was stopped and restarted — mimicking the conditions used in most heart bypass surgery — scientists found hearts with coronary disease from genetically modified mice were more resistant to damage than hearts without coronary disease.

So what do you think? Have you ever heard of this before? The research team detailed their findings in the October issue of the journal of Critical Care Medicine.

via Science Daily/United Press International