Read more about the article Unstable angina. A devastating heart disease you can prevent.
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Unstable angina. A devastating heart disease you can prevent.

When blood and oxygen flow to your heart is compromised, you develop chest pain. We term it unstable angina. It may precede a myocardial infarction (heart attack). Unlike other types…

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Read more about the article Pulmonary Embolism. A blood clot in the lungs may kill you before you know it.
Circulatory system of heart and lungs, computer artwork, showing a thrombus in the right lung. This occurs when one of the pulmonary arteries is blocked, usually by an abnormal blood clot, that have broken off the wall of a vein in the leg or pelvis after forming in deep vein thrombosis. The two branches of the pulmonary artery (red) carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs. Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs in the two branches of the pulmonary vein (blue-violet). Getty Images

Pulmonary Embolism. A blood clot in the lungs may kill you before you know it.

A third of people with pulmonary embolism die before they reach the hospital. In other words, a blood clot in the lungs kills them before they become aware of its…

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Read more about the article Pericarditis. Diagnosis is challenging: recovery takes weeks!
Pericarditis, illustration. Comparison between a normal heart and one with pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardium. Getty Images.

Pericarditis. Diagnosis is challenging: recovery takes weeks!

Pericarditis implies inflammation of the pericardium – a thin fibro-elastic sac that encases your heart. It can be acute, subacute, recurrent, or chronic pericarditis. A diagnosis of pericarditis takes a…

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