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We’ve just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles and we’re told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance
Read the whole story: tmz.com

Every twenty seconds, a heart attack strikes someone in America, killing five hundred thousand a year. That’s fifty-seven deaths every hour, almost one per minute. In the United States and many nations, it’s the leading cause of death among adults over age forty.
The most lethal kind of heart problem–called sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) –occurs when your ticker’s electrical system goes haywire and stops pumping blood to the rest of your body. SCA accounts for an estimated 325,000 deaths every year in the US and it appears to have killed Michael Jackson. The King of Pop was found unconscious and not breathing by paramedics who attempted CPR and rushed him to UCLA Medical Center.
It’s important to note that a heart attack is different from cardiac arrest. A heart attack or myocardial infarction is a blockage of your heart’s plumbing while cardiac arrest is an electrical problem with your heartbeat, according to the Heart Rhythm Foundation. The difference is critical: Cardiac arrest is typically much more dangerous than heart attack

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Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Dr. Lung
Filed under: Disease, Heart, Sex
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