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Heart Disease In The News Exercise may help "bust" clots One of the most effective treatments for an acute heart attack is to administer intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (TPA), a drug that helps dissolve the blood clots that cause most heart attacks. A new study now shows that walking for 30 minutes can increase the amount of naturally occurring TPA in the bloodstream. It has been recognized for a long time that exercise can improve the outcome of patients with coronary artery disease. This new finding - that exercise can increase the "clot busting" agents in the bloodstream - offers one possible explanation of how exercise can be beneficial. Here's an article that explains how blood clots cause heart attacks. |
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