The essentials

Excellent treatments are available for heart attacks, and they're improving all the time. These treatments not only help you through the heart attack, but also limit damage to your heart and can help you live longer afterwards.

We've brought together the best research about heart attacks and weighed up the evidence about how to treat them. You can use our information to talk to your doctor and decide which treatments are best for you.

In Brief

Heart attack
If you've had a heart attack, it probably came as a big shock to you. Fortunately, excellent heart attack treatments are now available. This leaflet gives you information about heart attacks. You'll also learn about how you can recover and stay healthy afterwards.
Last updated: Nov 09, 2011