And while other big cities on the West Coast like Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland also have large L.G.B.T. populations, San Francisco continues to draw people, including from nearby San Jose, which has one of the smallest shares of L.G.B.T. people among the nationâs largest metropolitan areas. 1  Photo.
In that same period, the cost of treating heart attack patients rose from about $11,000 to about $15,000. Total heart attack spending in the same period rose from $2.6 billion to $3.4 billion.
Medical treatment. Heart attack treatment. Treatment for a heart attack is aimed at increasing blood flow by opening arteries blocked or narrowed by a blood clot. Drugs used to achieve this include aspirin and clot-busting (thrombolytic) drugs. Other drugs can be used to slow the heart rate, which decreases the workload of the heart and reduces pain. Angioplasty is a way of unblocking an artery. Angiography is done first to locate narrowing or blockages.