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A widowmaker heart attack occurs when that artery suddenly goes from 80 % or 90 % narrowed to 100 % narrowed,» Richard Katz, MD, director of the George Washington University Heart and Vascular Institute told Time.com in a previous interview.
Don't be fooled by the name: Women can have
widowmaker heart attacks as well as other types of heart attacks, and the symptoms might be different from those that men experience.
Ultra-healthy personal trainer and Biggest Loser host Bob Harper famously suffered
a widowmaker heart attack during a workout at age 51 and survived, he recently explained, only because two doctors happened to be at the gym.
Not exact matches
Rosie wrote on her blog that she had 99 % blockage, and they call the type of
heart attack she had «The
Widowmaker.»
His doctor told him the
heart attack was incredibly serious: a 100 % blockage of the LAD or left anterior descending artery, a type of
heart attack alarmingly known as a «
widowmaker.»
Ford hasn't been terribly astute in his choice of roles: You can't blame him, I suppose, for reprising Indiana Jones, but what about «Firewall,» «Hollywood Homicide,» «Random
Hearts,» and «K - 19: The
Widowmaker,» where he played a Russian naval officer with an authenticity as light as his accent was thick?