James Black Quotes

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.

When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.

I thought I had a chest infection and went to the doctor - five days later I was under the knife. It came completely out of the blue. My arteries were 95% blocked.

I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.

Fans with heart problems have to be careful!