Nwankwo Kanu Quotes

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

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

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 had three bypasses in one go, using arteries harvested from my leg and the right side of my chest.

When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.

When people age, the main valve carrying blood out of the heart becomes brittle. As this aortic valve narrows, it can cause debilitating heart failure, and even death.

I come from an era when if you are told that you need a triple heart bypass it sounds pretty terminal. But I think it's quite a normal operation these days.

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

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

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

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

I put the heart attack down to 66 cigarettes a day.

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

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

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

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

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

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.

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

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

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.