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People with heart disease should take special precautions before undergoing all operations, even noncardiac surgery, to reduce their risk of a cardiac event, according to new joint guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. The guidelines update those from 2002. Some of the new recommendations are as follows :
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