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Ann Age: 58
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"In 1994, at 50, I had a heart attack.  One evening I felt pressure in my chest and tingling down both arms.  I remember saying, 'It feels like I'm having a heart attack.'  The next morning, I still had a strange sensation in my chest.  I called the doctor and was sent to the hospital.  After 10 days of tests, I had an angioplasty to open three clogged arteries.  Considering how many first heart attacks are fatal, I was lucky to be alive the following morning to seek medical help."


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