You are in 40s, maybe your early 50s, and you're feeling fine. Heart disease, clogged arteries are not on your radar. You have no symptoms, and so it just doesn’t enter your mind. A new study, published in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, noted that atherosclerosis is often only discovered after what it calls a cardiovascular event – that could be a heart attack, or a stroke, in lay terms. “This is of particular importance because (cardiovascular) events are often fatal, and many deaths attributable to coronary artery disease are sudden,” the study said. Dr. Bolger, of the University of California at San Francisco, puts it another way, speaking of the age group in...
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