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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Know the symptoms of a heart attack

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Anne Burgess had been a keen runner, wasn’t overweight and ate a balanced diet with lots of fruit and vegetables. But in 2017, at the age of 57, the retired school teacher who lives in south Birmingham had a heart attack.

“I woke up at half past three in the morning and I just thought what on earth was that. It was just this central chest pain that felt like a huge pressure in the centre of my chest radiating out through my back,” she says.

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