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Can skinny people have a heart attack or suffer heart disease?

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Yes: It would depend upon other risk factors.

Answered 4/20/2013

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Yes: Blockage can happen in the coronaries even in marathon runners and food faddists!

Dr Brown-Puryear and another doctor agreed

Answered 4/25/2013

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