Surviving Heart Attack Often Means Leaving Job Behind

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Surviving Heart Attack Often Means Leaving Job Behind
Danish research suggests more support needed for workers

Wednesday, October 4, 2017


WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Recovering from a heart attack can be a long, painful process, and now a new study finds that almost one-quarter of those patients who returned to work ultimately left their jobs over the following year.

The findings suggest that "even though patients return to work after a heart attack, they may still require individual adjustments at their workplaces in order to stay employed," said study author Dr. Laerke Smedegaard Petersen. She is a graduate student at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_168850.html

[DB]

Heart attack and cancer do affect ones outlook on life. Mortality becomes much more real, particularly when you aren't that old. Long term planning tends to take a back seat...

[sneakypete]

By a strange coincidence,NOT surviving a heart attack also means leaving your job behind.