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The Sopranos star James Gandolfini might have been saved
if he had recognized any of the symptoms that can warn of a cardiac
arrest up to a month ahead of time, a top cardiologist tells Newsmax
Health.
“There are warning signs that often precede sudden cardiac arrest,
but the problem is that people don’t recognize them,” says Chauncey
Crandall, M.D., director of preventative medicine and clinical
cardiology at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic. “James Gandolfini
and hundreds of thousands of other heart victims like him could have
been saved.”
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Gandolfini died of sudden cardiac arrest last June at age 51 while
he was vacationing in Rome with his family. Although his death seemed to
strike without warning, that was probably not the case, Dr. Crandall
says.
“Asymptomatic cardiac death is pretty rare. When you go back and
talk to those who survive it, or their families, you’ll find that there
is always something that provides an indication that something was wrong
before the attack,” he says.
“The symptom could be chest pain, even very minor – or shoulder
pain, neck pain, back pain, or episodes of nausea. Perhaps their blood
pressure was suddenly elevated. All these things can indicate that a
heart attack is going to happen or is happening.”
Warning signs may be even subtler. “Perhaps their color is off,
they feel dizzy, they are short of breath, they fainted, or they are
extremely fatigued – all these things can be telltale warning signs,”
says Dr. Crandall, author of the No. 1 Amazon best-selling book The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease.
About 325,000 people die from sudden cardiac death each year, many
of them, like Gandolfini, middle-aged men. It is the largest cause of
death in the U.S.
Sudden cardiac death occurs when the heart suddenly ceases to beat,
usually because the heartbeat is irregular and dangerously fast.
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