Bill Clinton’s Heart Bypass
September 28, 2006 by Lei
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I just finished President Bill Clinton’s memoir (956 pages of it or thereabouts!) and became curious about his experience with heart disease. He sounded like a fairly active guy in the book, but clearly stress took its toll and perhaps family history as well.
In a piece published in Parade Magazine last year, President Clinton writes “I Was A Heart Attack Waiting To Happen”:
On Labor Day 2004, while most Americans had the day off, my surgical team was hard at work, sawing my chest open, stopping my heart for close to an hour, putting me on a heart-lung machine, relocating a vein from my leg and rerouting an artery from my chest to bypass my four blocked arteries.
Out of the publicity following his heart surgery, the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association founded the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to create an environment for children that will help guide them to a healthier way of life. Part of that effort is the Healthier Generation website for kids.
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