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Article: Heart Attack! Prevention and Treatment.
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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OFTEN, you hear people say that an individual seemed perfectly healthy, but suddenly died from a heart attack. In the past, cardiac specialists assumed that a person's chance of having a heart attack is higher if there are severe blockages in the coronary artery, and the larger the blockage, the greater the risk. The more severe blockages often will cause symptoms of chest pain (angina) because the heart does not get enough blood, especially when the patient exerts himself or herself. Consequently, common sense would dictate that most people who develop heart attacks must have severe blockages.
However, over the past 10 years, results of scientific studies defied ...