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Why do people die from heart attacks?
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Several: Arrhythmias include heart block, standstill, ventricular fibrillation cardiac rupture cardiac thrombus and embolism syncope and cerebral hypoxia with low cardiac output, and on and on.
Answered 4/5/2013
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