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The Silent Killer in Your Mouth

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By Ralph Cushman  -- Click "Read More" at bottom right. This nearly killed me, yet I had no clue it had been bearing down on me for months, so I'd pay attention if I were you. As late as January 2020 my heart was great.    I could run up 7 flights of stairs without a problem.    But one beautiful, sunny July day a few months later I left my office and tried to casually walk a couple of blocks to my car on flat, paved ground and nearly had a heart attack from the strain.    I thought I was going to have to lay down in some stranger's yard, the discomfort in my chest was so bad. For a couple of months before that I thought the pains in my chest were heartburn, but it suddenly became clear that was not the explanation.  I went to see my GP the next morning and he sent me to a cardiologist on an emergency basis.  After all kinds of tests and imagery the cardio told me all three of my major coronary arteries were badly blocked (about 80%, he said)...