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HOUSTON — Texas Com
merce Bancshares Inc. Tuesday
reported earnings of $45.8 mil
lion for the first quarter of
1984, a 2 percent increase from
the $44.8 million earned in the
first quarter of 1983.
On a per share basis, earn
ings were $1.41, up 1 percent
irom the 1.39 earned in the first
quarter of 1983.
« The board of directors Tues-
da\ declared a regular quarterly
dividend of 35 Va cents per
share for common stock and 45
tents per share on preferred
Rock.
> Loans averaged $11.8 billion
during the first quarter, an in-
1 pt
first quarter of 1983. Compared
with the fourth quarter of 1983,
average loans increased $696
million, the highest level of
linked-quarter loan growth in
Texas Commerce’s history.
At March 31, the 65 member
banks of Texas Commerce had
consolidated total assets of $19
billion, total deposits of $12.7
billion, total loans and leases of
$12.2 billion and stockholders’
equity of $ 1.1 billion.
DALLAS — Every year in
this country about 1.5 million
people feel a sudden tightness
in the chest, a crick in the neck
or arm, a queasy, rolling stom
ach, lightheadedness or an
abrupt drench of sweat. Many
wait to see what will happen
next.
For 350,000, it will be their
funeral.
“People don’t want to cause
trouble to others, and that’s a
big mistake,” says Chicago car
diologist Dr. Gary Wilner. “Be
lieve me, there’s no reason to be
overly courteous if you’re hav
ing a heart attack.”
Wilner, in Dallas to open a
heart study exhibit at the South
west Museum of Science and
Technology, said people should
consider heart attack symptoms
for what they are: screams of
distress from thqir bodies. He
said chances of recovery hinge
on speed of medical assistance.
“Things have improved since
Leonardo da Vinci,” Wilner
said. “Leonardo said, ‘The
heart ... is a vessel formed of
thick muscle ... it moves of itself,
and does not stop unless for
ever.’”
In fact, says Wilner, who is
president of the Chicago Heart
Association, five million Ameri
cans are enjoying life today de
spite their hearts’ best efforts to
wheeze and stop.
“Half the deaths from heart
attacks occur within four hours
after the symptoms begin,”
Wilner said. “People are mak
ing it to the hospital sooner
than they used to, so more are
being saved.”
But as with so many things,
Wilner said, when it comes to
keeping a healthy heart, the
best defense is a good offense,
or, as Irish physician Sir Wil
liam Stokes put it in the mid-
1800s:
“We must train the patient
gradually but steadily to the giv
ing up of all luxurious habits.
He must adopt early hours and
pursue a system of gradual
muscular exercise.”
Wilner said certain factors
bearing on coronary health —
heredity, age, race and sex —
can’t be changed, but others
can.
“What we’re talking about
here is self-help,” Wilner said.
“Smoking? Stop. High blood
pressure? Reduce salt, or talk to
your doctor about beta blockers
(a group of heart drugs). Diet?
Cut back saturated fats. They
plug up the veins and arteries.
Weight? Get rid of the excess
before it wafts you off on a pil
low of lard.”
Under stress, the body starts
pumping out adrenalin-like
hormones that head for recep
tors in the heart, prepping it for
“fight or flight” by spurring it to
work harder, beat faster. The
stress may be physical, like
shoveling snow, or mental, like
stage fright.
People with hard-driving
personalities have snap reac
tions to stress and hyperadrena-
Hze repeatedly each day, Wilner
said, soaking their long-suffer
ing hearts with stimulants. He
said over time, the toll shows up
as coronary disease.
Starting in 1978, Wilner
headed a research group study
ing heart attack victims to see if
beta blockers improved their
survival odds. One drug, pro
pranolol HCL, reduced the
death rate from heart attack re
currences by 26 percent.
Beta blockers pre-empt the
same sites on the heart targeted
by adrenalizing hormones,
blocking their action, he said, so
the heart continues ticking
along at a normal pace.
Propranolol is given now to
people with the highest risk of
heart attack, he said.
Exercise increases the
strength and efficiency of the
heart and circulatory system.
Diet can reduce cholesterol con
tent of the blood and burn off
excess pounds.
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