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How probable is a heart attack at 21, and how probable is that an ekg missed something?
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Atherosclerosis: Low & low depends on one's personal risks smoking, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipemia, diabetes , family history. Simply, one blocks the feeding artery to part of the heart muscle and low flow, or no flow causes ischemia which cause death of the heart cells, which is a heart attack! myocardial infarction is the medical term.Ekg and lab tests show the damage.
Answered 12/9/2013
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Heart attack: It depends. If you are a non smoker, non drug user, with no family history of premature (at a young age) coronary artery disease; and you have no history of congenital problems with your heart, your risk is low.
Answered 7/4/2013
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