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Tenn. hospital studies heart attack warning system

By Emily Stroud
WBIR-TV Knoxville
Copyright ©2007 WBIR-TV Knoxville

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Getting to the emergency room fast when you have a heart attack can mean the difference between life and death.

Research at a Knoxville hospital could buy you critical time.

Darlene Bell of Morristown had triple bypass surgery last year.

“My biggest fear right now is having a heart attack,” she said. She hopes an experimental device will warn her if chest pain is really a heart attack.

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