More fit patients likelier to survive heart bypass

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More fit patients likelier to survive heart bypass

By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People in better shape heading into bypass surgery are less likely to die shortly following the procedure than those who are less fit, according to a new study. "We were not surprised because it makes intuitive sense that those patients who are not fit are going to do poorly with a large operation," said Dr. James Smith, the lead author of the study and an interventional cardiology fellow at Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Michigan. ...

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