REMARKABLE. That's how Alex Houlden describes the treatment heart patients receive these days. And he has first hand ex- perience. The facts of life and death During the course of Heart Month 30,000 volunteers ‘will be knocking on. doors across the province seeking donations to the B.C. Heart and Stroke Foundation. ; Why do they do it? Because they know heart disease and stroke is the coun- try’s No. 1 killer. In this pro- vince alone, they claim close to 200 people each and every year. Because one ~in four, one quarter of Canadians have some form of heart disease, stroke or | disease of the blood vessels.’ And because the work of the Foundation has contributed to the following, encouraging statistics: va e The incidence of heart and blood vessel disease has fallen 36 per cent since 1955; © -Heart attacks are down 26 per cent; cent; - @ More than 70 per cent of all money spent’ on research. heart disease .and stroke: projects in this province are paid: for by the Foundation. | a “Canadian researchers have helped : pioneer. pacemakers, heart by-pass operations and heart valve transplants. Page B2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 12, 1992 ¢ “Strokes, are. “down, ‘50 per; dy... From everything he'd read | and heard about heart attacks, Alex Houlden thought they came suddenly and with tremen- dous pain. What he felt was simply ‘a dull ache’’ and recalls looking for other causes of the pain, such as indigestion. Nor did Houlden fit the stereotype heart attack victim. He wasn’t overweight and was a non-smoker and non-drinker. in his chest and right arm. He had them for quite a while but what was wrong, Part of the problem was ‘‘the pains 1 was getting were in the wrong place,’ he points out, ex- plaining the lefi arm is the one normally affected when there’s heart trouble involved. ‘‘That kind of threw them off track’. One January morning he Coming Soon To. 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Called to examine Houlden, a doctor took one look and con- cluded he was having a heart at- tack. “Then it finally showed up on the electrocardiogram,” Houlden says, - He was. immediately given TPA, a new drug, and recalls the pain vanished in just 10 minutes. — A medivac flight got him down to St. Paul’s where an angiogram determined a pinch- ed vein was causing a partial blockage in his blood circula- tion system. An angiogram,. Houlden e eX plains, involves cutting into a main artery and threading a tube through it all the way to the heart. A ‘‘dye’’ is then in- jected which, as~ it passes through the system, shows all arteries on a monitor. In turn, it also shows where the blockage is. “You can see this thing wiggl- ‘ing around and heading up into your heart, but you can’t feel a thing,” he adds. Because only a single vein was plugged, Houlden says doctors decided it wasn’t. sensible to operate. 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