Can a person with normal cholesterol and blood pressure level have chances to get heart blockage problem?
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Certainly!
I did!
My everything was normal when I had a 6x bypass just before my 56th birthday. I had the heart attack while I was in the emergency room waiting for the EKG machine to get to my bedside. I went in about midnight because my back was hurting and I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't think of anything I had done that day to make it hurt and my father had a heart attack when he was about my age so I figured I better get it checked. Good thing I did, because I was in the right place to be when you have one. I ended up with no damage to my heart muscle.
To show how good my condition was before, and why my doctor never expected this to happen. Before the operation, they did an ultrasound on my carotid arteries. The technician was astounded. She said, "You have nothing in there. Everybody has SOME plaque in there and people who are in here for bypass surgery like you are, usually have a lot. Yours are perfectly clean."
So I had NONE of the usual indicators of upcoming heart disease.
I believe it was genetic, as my father was within a few weeks or possibly days or hours of being the exact same age as I was when it happened. I was only 13 when it happened and I have no way to find out the exact date of his. His birthday is in July and I remember it was hot waiting in the car while my mother visited him. In 1953 they didn't let kids go in hospitals to visit.
I did!
My everything was normal when I had a 6x bypass just before my 56th birthday. I had the heart attack while I was in the emergency room waiting for the EKG machine to get to my bedside. I went in about midnight because my back was hurting and I couldn't get to sleep. I couldn't think of anything I had done that day to make it hurt and my father had a heart attack when he was about my age so I figured I better get it checked. Good thing I did, because I was in the right place to be when you have one. I ended up with no damage to my heart muscle.
To show how good my condition was before, and why my doctor never expected this to happen. Before the operation, they did an ultrasound on my carotid arteries. The technician was astounded. She said, "You have nothing in there. Everybody has SOME plaque in there and people who are in here for bypass surgery like you are, usually have a lot. Yours are perfectly clean."
So I had NONE of the usual indicators of upcoming heart disease.
I believe it was genetic, as my father was within a few weeks or possibly days or hours of being the exact same age as I was when it happened. I was only 13 when it happened and I have no way to find out the exact date of his. His birthday is in July and I remember it was hot waiting in the car while my mother visited him. In 1953 they didn't let kids go in hospitals to visit.
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