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Show Safeguard Heart Doctor Suggests Dr. K. A. Crockett, President Presi-dent of the Utah Heart Association Asso-ciation urges everyone to put this resolution at the top of their list for 1959. "Resolved, that I will safeguard safe-guard my health by taking full advantage of the new knowledge know-ledge which heart research has developed in the past ten years." Emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis and periodic health checkups, the Association Associa-tion counseled individuals to avoid needless worry over real or imagined "symptoms," but instead to see a doctor and follow fol-low his advice. Life-saving research re-search achievements of the past decade, it was stated, have given gi-ven the physician many effective effec-tive weapons against the heart and circulatory diseases including: in-cluding: Vastly improved methods of diagnosis. Drugs to prevent many initial ini-tial and most recurrent attacks at-tacks of rheumatic fever, which can cause heart damage. New and improved methods of treating heart attacks and strokes, including drugs that retard blood clotting and help prevent repeat attacks. New drugs that can control most cases of high blood pressure. pres-sure. New methods of treating disorders dis-orders which may lead to heart failure. Surgery to correct or relieve many congenital and acquired defects of the heart,, as well as surgery to remove clots and replace sections of damaged arteries. |