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A heart attack is caused by whata?
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Atherosclerosis: 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 12/10/2013
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Traditionally: By a ruptured cholesterol plaque in the coronary artery.
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