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Can you suffer heart failure or a heart attack from being woken up scared with a racing heart? :/ it happens every now n then big family !

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Unusual: Unlikely if no other atherosclerosis or risk factors: smoking, obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia s, and positive family history. But i guess at your house, careful gentle awakening would be a good idea. , .

Dr Considine agreed

Answered 7/13/2013

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