Responses:
 
Not technically, no. Basically,
there is such a thing as silent ischemia and that means that people can have
a heart attack and not know it. There are various theories about this, pain
threshold, the amount of heart muscle involved, the fact that you are a diabetic
means that you have relatively small wiggly arteries and can be more prone to
narrowings in the arteries that would have caused the artery to block off, requiring
PTCA. I hope this helps!
Andrina, Prince Sultan
Cardiac Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 10 Feb 2002
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