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What Causes A Heart Attack?
hey a close friend has just suffered a heart attack at 54 yrs he told me that the nurse or doctor not sure, said that if he has small almost wrinkle like lines down the side by the sidburns it could be a precusor to another heart attack? is this correct/ sounds a bit "quacky" to me
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perhaps the nurse or doctor was talking about ECG in layman terms ..but diagnosis is confirmed by ecg and cardiac enzymes as troponins ..cpk mb
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