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What is blood clots? what can cause blood clots?

Can blood clots cause heart attacks?? ?

  • Could blood clots cause a heart attack? If so, how? My dad tends to eat food that is somewhat higher in fat and cholesteral, and doensn't exercise much (sits a lot), so I'm just wondering all this since he had a blood clot in his leg not too long ago..

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    Yes, blood clots that lodge in your heart and block veins or arteries can cause a heart attack. A heart attack usually happens when arteries clog and narrow and blood cannot flow through. Blood clots can also lodge in your lungs (pulmonary embolism) and are life threatening and in your brain (stroke).

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they could, if they were in a major artery, like your jugguler vein, but im not sure. ask a doctor

blood clots can move through your heart and kill you or move to your lungs and you die. i don't believe that they 'cause heart attacks'.

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