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Like most modern presidential races, this year's campaign has given us its fair share of health lessons. First there was Bill Bradley's atrial fibrillation. Then we learned about Dick Cheney's heart attacks and bypass surgery. Now Senator John McCain is fighting a renewed battle against malignant melanoma, the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer, whose incidence has grown dramatically over the past 50 years. McCain's office reported last week that doctors found two cancerous lesions--one on his left temple and the other on his left arm. An earlier melanoma was removed from...
...heart attacks he suffered between the ages of 37 and 48. While Cheney recuperated and brooded over what to do, his wife Lynne went out on the campaign trail for him for six weeks. He won with 59% of the vote. Twelve years later he underwent a quadruple coronary bypass--mostly, he insists, so he could continue hard-breathing pursuits like skiing and backpacking. Today he sticks to fly fishing and daily time on the treadmill...
...occur when the flow of oxygen-rich blood is partially interrupted and some of the heart tissue dies. He had his second and third in 1984 and 1988, during a decade of extraordinary progress in the medical and surgical treatment of heart disease. By the time he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in August 1988, the procedure had become almost routine...
...WHAT SHAPE ARE CHENEY'S BYPASS GRAFTS? For technical reasons, most of his grafts must have come from veins in his legs. After about 15 years, many leg-vein grafts become blocked as well...
...long history of high cholesterol that "has been vigorously and successfully treated with medication." But they don't provide any figures. Dr. Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins Medical School cites a number of studies--one of which was published just three weeks ago--showing that bypass patients who lower their LDL (bad cholesterol) levels to 100 mg/dl or less reduce their likelihood of needing additional invasive treatment...