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The Small Warnings Before Cardiac Arrest

Hints of heart trouble sometimes surface weeks before the life-threatening event, a new study finds

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Sue Chlebek was on her regular three-mile walk with a friend one spring morning when she told her companion she was so short of breath, she must be dominating the conversation.

About two hours later, she went into sudden cardiac arrest just seconds after arriving at a hospital emergency room. Doctors shocked her heart back into rhythm with a defibrillator and then deployed a stent to open a blocked artery.

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