BMJ  2007;335:666 (29 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.39129.623368.BE

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Relative risk

Stephen J Hanna, GP registrar, department of elderly medicine, York District Hospital, York

sjhanna@doctors.net.uk

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"It was a tight pain, around my chest, just like when I had my heart attack 40 years ago." He went on to give a textbook history of cardiac chest pain, which had kept him awake all night two nights previously. When I asked him why he had not sought help sooner, he told me that he had been looking after his son's pets while he was away for an important job interview: "If I wasn't there to look after them, he couldn't have gone to the interview, and he really needs the job."

I proceeded to ask about risk factors for ischaemic heart disease, starting with smoking. "Yes, I did smoke, but then again, everyone did then ... you would have too."

Intrigued, I asked what he meant. "I was a Spitfire pilot during the war. Not the normal planes, but the ones on the aircraft carriers. The landing . . . [Full text of this article]


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