# HEART ATTACK π Do other animals get heart attacks?π€π€ Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a heart attack, which amounts to about 805,000 heart attacks every year.π Of course, this statistic applies only to humans. But what about other animals π€ do they also experience this debilitating and potentially deadly condition? β For the most part, other animals don't get heart attacks β not even one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). π± Nonhuman animals experience other cardiac problems, but as far as scientists know, heart attacks are rare in other creatures.𦧠"In general, animals don't naturally die from the typical heart attack that you see where you clog up the coronary arteries in humans," Philip Gordts, an assistant professor who studies heart disease at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), told Live Science. π¦. I always encourage to do extra research before believing anything. β€οΈ
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