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How can i prevent the situation where i would need a pacemaker?
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Complicated question: Pacemakers are used when a person has heart rhythms that are too fast, too slow, or may "degenerate" into a dangerous, life-threatening rhythm. Not knowing your individual situation - and not being a cardiologist, i guess the best way to avoid a pacer is to prevent heart disease in the first place. The basics: weight control, blood pressure and cholesterol control, smoking cessation, etc.
Answered 1/18/2013
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