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I'm sure you've read about how 1 in 4 teenage girls in the US have an STD. So I'm not even going to go there because it totally freaks me out!

Survivors of a heart attack are put on all sorts of regimens to keep themselves moving onward and upward when it comes to the ladder of good health. However, doctors are finding many of the patients are not following the guidelines and advice which is obviously life threatening. This finding prompted a study on whether or not reminder letters would help patients to actually do what they were told.

So 836 heart attack survivors in the US were put into a study group. Half of them got two letters, sent two months apart, about the importance of taking beta-blockers. "During the nine-month study, patients who got the reminder letters were more likely to fill their beta-blocker prescriptions. They were 17% more likely than patients in the comparison group to have their beta-blocker prescription filled at least 80% of the time."

Really? I'm not the most health conscious cat in the world and I should take better card of myself but I hardly think I'd require a reminder letter, or two, to be reminded to take my medicine after having a heart attack! I think these people need to be put in a different study, like one for depression or something because if they care so little about themselves then something's going on upstairs. Mmmkay.

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