A 37-year-old member asked:
How can anorexia cause heart attacks ?
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Dr. Robert Binfordanswered
Thoracic Surgery 40 years experience
Not heart attacks: Anorexia can cause many problems. When you are severely malnourished then the salts in your body (sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, etc) can become unbalanced. This can lead to life threatening heart rhythm problems like abruptly stopping (sudden death) technically this is not a heart attack which is when a portion of your heart muscle dies because of poor blood flow.
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Dr. Arthur Helleranswered
Gastroenterology 45 years experience
Anorexia nervosa?: Anorexia means loss of appetite. Lots of causes. Most aren't associated with heart attack. Anorexia nervosa is a speciific disease, with morbid fear of at gain, distorted body image, restricted intake/semi starvation, excessive wt loss. Leads to loss of muscle mass, including heart, vitamin/mineral/ electrolyte problems, leading to rhythm probe, heart failure, even death.
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A 27-year-old male asked about a 51-year-old female:
What are the causes of minor heart attacks?
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Dr. Sanober Buttanswered
Pulmonology 22 years experience
Stress: Any reason that will lead to stressing heart including infections, sepsis, and of course underlying coronary artery disease. Minor heart attacks are usually called demand ischemia in scientific terms.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
What are the causes of heart attacks to happen?
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Dr. Calvin Weisbergeranswered
53 years experience
Heart attacks: Are caused by the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque in a coronary artery. This can be triggered by increased pulse pressure in that artery. We don't understand all the triggers however.
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