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Emergency care for heart attacks and strokes rebounds

June 2, 2021

New research from a Kaiser Permanente study published in JAMA suggests recent public health campaigns that encouraged people to seek care if they were experiencing signs or symptoms of a stroke or heart attack have been effective.

Rates of heart attack treatment down as much as 48% during COVID-19 outbreak

May 21, 2020

Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California have treated significantly fewer heart attacks since the COVID-19 outbreak began in early March compared with the same period in 2019, Matthew Solomon, MD, of The Permanente Medical Group told HealthDay.

Tweetcap: New findings on how both blood pressure readings can predict heart attack, stroke risk

August 9, 2019

Recent research from Permanente stroke specialist Alex Flint, MD, shows that both systolic and diastolic numbers are key to determining heart attack and stroke risk.

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