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21. Thanks! So am I!
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 02:13 AM
Sep 2013

I suspect, although can't know now, that I started getting clogging early on. A friend of mine who studied medicine in London and Brussels told me that when they performed autopsies on the cadavers of young fatalities from traffic accidents, some of them as young as 20 years old already showed the beginnings of arterial clogging.

Another thing...I have relatively low blood pressure (110/70 at rest) and didn't feel the angina I would have had I had higher BP, so I didn't notice a thing until it was almost too late. After the successful stent implant in 2004, the whole thing was conducted in german until afterward when the professor made his only comment in English (he knew I was American): "Just in time."

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