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Heart Attack - Critical Illness

Posted by nixonantao on Tue, 13 Sep 2011

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Heart attack occurs when the coronary artery becomes blocked by oily deposits and this severely interrupts blood flow. When that part of the heart loses its blood supply completely, the muscle dies. This is called a heart attack, or an MI - a myocardial infarction (myo=muscle +cardial=heart; infarction=death due to lack of oxygen). Unfortunately, if more people knew exactly what a heart attack was, as well as the warning signs, then there would not be so many heart attack related deaths. Symptom... Read More

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