You can diet and exercise all you want.

But if you've suffered a heart attack and don't take your medication properly, then your chances of survival can decrease by 25 per cent or more in the following years, new University of Toronto research suggests.

"While only a minority of patients in this study didn't take their drugs, the mortality impact from that was enormous," says Dr. David Alter, a Toronto cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto

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Original Article - http://www.thestar.com/Health/article/170280
Related CBC News Feature -
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/01/09/heart-drugs.html
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada - http://www.heartandstroke.ca