Warning attacks

 
Published: Sunday 30 April 1995

-- Angina can actually reduce the chances of death through heart attacks, concluded a free heart camp in Delhi recenty.

Angina causes severe pain because of oxygen deficiency in the heart. Over years, serial anginal chest pain may open alternate channels for increasing blood supply to the heart, preventing a major heart attack. Another theory says that each angina attack toughens the heart muscles.

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