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Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PVST) Learning Center

Prevention could include:
Avoid smoking, caffeine, alcohol, and illicit drugs. Medications used to treat the disorder may be given as a preventive (prophylactic) treatment in people at a high risk or who have had previous episodes of PSVT.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 12, 2008
Antiarrhythmic drugs are medicines that correct irregular heartbeats and slow down hearts that beat too fast.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
There are a lot of ways to quit smoking and many resources to help you. Family members, friends, and coworkers may be supportive or encouraging, but the desire and commitment to quit must be your own. Most people who have been able to successfully...
Source:ADAM
Date:June 19, 2008
Smoking prevalence has been declining in countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, but these declines are matched by increasing rates in most other countries. The Healthy People 2010 goal in the United States ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Smoking cessation is the medical term for quitting smoking. It is a vital part of cancer prevention because smoking is the single most preventable cause of death from cancer. As early as 1982, the Surgeon General reported that tobacco causes more ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Smoking cessation means "to quit smoking," or "withdrawal from nicotine." Because smoking is highly addictive, quitting the habit often involves irritability, headache, mood swings, and cravings associated with the sudden cessation or reduction of...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
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