1.   A large number of Good Samaritan heart patients benefit from the stress echo test.

2.   For instance, too many heart patients think that corrective surgery allows them to eat all the fatty foods they want.

3.   More and more heart patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

4.   Some heart patients have to wait between three months and a year for surgery.

5.   The health ministers agreed to meet a delegation of heart patients.

6.   A report is recommending that nine London area hospitals be closed including the world-renowned Harefield Hospital used by heart patients.

7.   Mrs Cook, a heart patient, was suffering from a condition which made her agitated and likely to fall out of bed.

8.   Also, more people are being counted, because of better reporting and surveying of heart patients.

9.   And a national quality-control watchdog will soon begin asking health maintenance organizations to report the proportion of heart patients that is meeting target levels of blood cholesterol.

10.   Analysts and investors still have high hopes for the procedure, which has dramatically reduced angina in heart patients with few or no other treatment options.