Coronary Artery Disease Quotes

As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

I always felt like I was healthy; I never felt like anything was wrong with me. Until the morning that I had a massive heart attack. On the golf course, by myself.

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.

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

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.

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

I was just at home walking around at home, and I started feel, well, just funny. You know how you can feel funny? I had a strange pain in my chest. So my housekeeper took me to the hospital, when they hooked me up and did all these tests turned out I had a big heart attack.

In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a whole-foods, plant-based diet low in refined carbohydrates.

The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.

Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.

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

Fans with heart problems have to be careful!

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.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats.

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

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

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