Word: angina
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...last stop was his doctor's office. Complaining of chest pains, Daley, who had suffered from angina for several years, dropped by for a checkup-and collapsed. Ninety minutes of efforts by medical teams could not revive him. After 22 years as mayor, at the head of a political machine without parallel in America, Daley was dead...
...suffered an attack of angina, which he said "feels as though a Volkswagen has run you over on the chest," on September 30. "But the doctors said there was no damage, so I signed myself out," Alfred said...
...always, Nolen is refreshingly candid. He admits that he foolishly refused to take his first chest pains "seriously-though he had a history of high blood pressure, and his father died at 58 of heart disease. After an electrocardiogram finally confirmed that the pain was angina-a condition caused by an inadequate flow of blood to the heart muscles-an immediate concern, he allows, was whether he would be able to keep up an active sex life...
...victory was Doug Peach's, but he also paid a price. In the midst of the strike, he collapsed with an attack of angina pectoris. He was away from the factory for five months. During that time, his 34-year-old marriage to Hilda came near to breaking up. "I wouldn't have liked any of my lads to have followed me into the trade union movement," he says. "It made me for a number of years become a machine...
...blood supply and thus its oxygen. The resulting damage is called a stroke. High blood pressure also forces the heart to work harder, for it must pump against increased resistance. The overworked organ may enlarge, demanding more oxygen than the system can provide; the chest pains of angina pectoris or even damage to irreplaceable heart muscle may soon follow. Or the enlarged heart may be unable to empty itself against the pressure of blood in the arteries, causing fluid to accumulate behind the heart, in the lungs and extremities. In either case, the result will be the same: a heart...