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Heart attack waiting to happen’ isn’t always obvious

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August 29, 2011
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Heart attack waiting to happen' isn't always obviousIf you’re not overweight, eat pretty well and exercise now and then, you might think you’re in good heart health. But doctors say you don’t have to look like a heart attack waiting to happen to be one.Tom Bare, 54, is a case in point. The high school science teacher was thin, active and ate well, but still needed open-heart surgery this spring to bypass blocked coronary arteries.”I had taken care of myself, taken care of my body,” Bare said.Bare received a telltale warning sign this spring when he went for a jog outside his Lincoln, Nebraska, home.

“Made it about three tenths of a mile and then had the classic symptoms. Chest pain … and then pain down the left arm and shortness of breath,” Bare said. That’s what prompted him to see his doctor. Within days, he was scheduled for surgery.”He’s at risk for heart attack just because of the amount of plaque that he has,” said surgeon Ed Raines just before performing a quintuple bypass on Bare.Bill Clinton: Omnivore to vegan

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Bare has a strong family history of heart disease: His mother’s parents both died of heart attacks, and his mother and brother both required heart surgery, he said.Bill Clinton: From omnivore to vegan Study finds new ways to lower cholesterol
Ways to keep your cholesterol healthyStill, he was trying to do everything right. He was on a statin medicine, which he said had lowered his cholesterol from just under 300 to 125. Total cholesterol of 240 or above is considered a risk factor for heart disease.Also, Bare’s typical diet was better than most: oatmeal for breakfast, fruit for lunch, chicken or Mexican food for dinner.

He didn’t smoke. He was not overweight or diabetic.”Friends are saying if there’s anybody in the group that shouldn’t be going through this, it would be me, because of my lifestyle,” Bare said. But, he added, “My brother has gone through this. My mom has gone through this. I knew it was coming.”Dr. Dean Ornish, who has researched the relationship between lifestyle and health, says even the most malignant family history can be overcome.”I don’t think anyone is doomed to have heart disease,” said Ornish, founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.”You know, even if your mother and your father and your sister and your brother all die from heart disease it doesn’t mean you need ever to die from it,” he added. “It just means you need to make bigger changes in your life than someone else who doesn’t have those kinds of genes.”For someone like Bare, that might mean adopting a plant-based diet, Ornish said. – CNN

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