Word: angina
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...week he would drive to the hospital to undergo a procedure called LDL-pheresis, a filtering process that removes from the blood the most dangerous form of cholesterol, known as LDL (for low-density lipoprotein). Now, after a year of treatments, Lewis is remarkably improved. His once crippling angina is "almost nonexistent," he reports. Thick deposits of cholesterol that used to be visible on his hands have largely vanished. He has resumed physical activity. "I'm walking half a mile in eight or nine minutes," he boasts. "It's a whole new ballgame. Now I have a future...
RECOVERING. Carl Albert, 76, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to '76; from triple-bypass heart surgery, after he was rushed to the hospital with the severe chest pains of unstable angina; in Oklahoma City. A 1980 heart attack severely restricted his traveling and speaking schedule...
...January 1983, Schroeder's busy family life and career were disrupted by a massive heart attack, which seriously damaged his heart muscle and left him crippled with angina, or chest pain. Two months later he underwent double-bypass surgery...
...some warning signals. A few days before his death, he complained to a fellow runner of exhaustion. "Tremendous fatigue often occurs prior to a heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness," says Winslow, "are two of the most common...
...have been running from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common symptom of coronary disease, after angina, is denial," observes Winslow. For long distance runners like Jim Fixx, it can be fatal...