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  2. Column: Is 75 the right age to wait for death? Steve Lopez ...

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    No heart valve replacements or colonoscopies. No chemo or radiation. ... And no pacemakers or stress tests. “We keep talking about average life expectancy … and it goes up and up and up, and ...

  3. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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    Each pulse causes the targeted chamber(s) to contract and pump blood, [3] thus regulating the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The primary purpose of a pacemaker is to maintain an even heart rate, either because the heart's natural cardiac pacemaker provides an inadequate or irregular heartbeat, or because there is a ...

  4. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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    It can relieve chest pain caused by CAD, slow the progression of CAD, and increase life expectancy. It aims to bypass narrowings in heart arteries by using arteries or veins harvested from other parts of the body, thus restoring adequate blood supply to the previously ischemic (deprived of blood) heart. There are two main approaches.

  5. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - Wikipedia

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    The difference between pacemakers and ICDs is that pacemakers are also available as temporary units and are generally designed to correct slow heart rates, i.e. bradycardia, while ICDs are often permanent safeguards against sudden life-threatening arrhythmias. S-ICD lead and generator position Sketch of an already-implanted cardioverter ...

  6. My 2-year-old daughter needed a pacemaker. That spurred me to ...

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    Heart disease is consistently the leading U.S. cause of death and accounts for larger medical costs than any other condition. By 2035, the American Heart Association projects that 45% of Americans ...

  7. The U.S. has the widest health span-lifespan gap - AOL

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    The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Americans outlive their health spans by 12.4 years, the study found.

  8. Cardiology - Wikipedia

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    [36] [37] In those with stable CAD it is unclear if PCI or CABG in addition to the other treatments improve life expectancy or decreases heart attack risk. [38] In 2013 CAD was the most common cause of death globally, resulting in 8.14 million deaths (16.8%) up from 5.74 million deaths (12%) in 1990. [26]

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

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    The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...

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