News Fresh Today: Exercisers Likelier to Survive Heart Attack: Study

People who suffer a cardiac arrest during exercise are three times more likely to survive than couch potatoes, reveals study. It found almost half of victims who were exercising at the time they had a cardiac arrest survived, compared with 15 per cent of those who were not. They said that it may be because exercising victims were generally fitter than the rest - but also indicated that survival rates could be aided by the fact that those who collapsed ...