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Widowmaker: the deadliest heart attack

While all kinds of heart attacks can be fatal, widowmaker heart attack has earned notoriety as one of the deadliest. It tends to attack out of the blue, and has a low survival rate. According to the American Heart Association, only about 12 per cent of people who experience a widow-maker heart attack out of the hospital live through it.

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