Caroline Kee is a health reporter at TODAY based in New York City.
Twelve minutes. That's how long Matias Escobar lay on the ground without a pulse while paramedics performed CPR after his heart stopped last October. Moments before, the healthy 38-year-old had collapsed due to a heart attack while running the final leg of the New York City Triathlon. Escobar suffered an ST-elevated myocardial infarction — the deadliest type of heart attack. 'It’s called the widow maker. ...
If you have an infection, you want to have a fever and want inflammation to clear the infection,' he continued. 'I’m talking about lower, more smoldering inflammation, that seems to predispose to heart attack also stroke risk. There are markers that look for that.
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