Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist behind the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday at 59 after being rushed to a New Orleans emergency room, probably of a heart attack, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. The piece goes on to review heart attack symptoms and causes.
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Diet
How to reduce the risk of heart attack that kills Peter Graves
Peter Graves died at 84 of what his doctor said was likely a heart attack, collapsing outside his Los Angeles home. Most heart attacks follow plaque buildup in the coronary arteries, and nutritionist Colin Campbell is cited for the view that diet drives that buildup and can reverse it.
Nutrition
Dick Cheney suffers his fifth heart attack: What you need to know
Dick Cheney, 69, left a Washington hospital after a mild heart attack, his fifth since 1978. The piece recaps his bypass surgery and heart-rhythm device, and cites CDC figures on the 1.2 million heart attacks Americans suffer each year and the warning signs to watch for.
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Quitting smoking helps heart attack survivors
Israeli researchers followed 1,500 heart attack survivors for 13 years and found those who quit smoking were 37 percent less likely to die during follow-up than those who kept smoking. People who had never smoked had a 43 percent lower risk of dying.
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Carter's White House press secretary Jody Powell dies
Jody Powell, press secretary to President Jimmy Carter, died Monday of a heart attack at his Maryland home at age 65. A friend said Powell had been working with firewood and collapsed while his helper was away; he had suffered a heart attack in recent years.
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Eat chocolate to avoid dying from second heart attack?
Swedish researchers followed 1,169 heart attack survivors for eight years and found those who ate more chocolate were less likely to die of a heart attack. The piece cautions this was not a trial: diets were recorded only at the start, and sicker patients may have stopped eating chocolate.
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HRT confirmed to increase heart attack risk in women
US heart attacks have fallen since the 2002 Women's Health Initiative warning drove HRT use among women aged 50-59 from 30 percent to under 15 percent, by RAND's count 25 fewer per 10,000 a year. Cardiologist Nieca Goldberg says it is premature to credit HRT's decline alone.
Disease
Heart attack or heartburn — symptoms Similar
Most heart attacks start slowly with mild chest discomfort that people mistake for heartburn, doctors say, and some heart patients get heartburn too. The American Heart Association lists arm, back, neck and jaw pain, cold sweat and nausea, and says not to wait more than five minutes to dial 911.
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