Clinton on mend but junk food bypass awaits
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Sick Willy is on the road to recovery. Former US president Bill Clinton, 58, who was told last week that several of his coronary arteries were more than 90 per cent blocked, has had a successful quadruple bypass operation.
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Former President Bill Clinton's heart bypass, expected Monday, likely will be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart, not some new whiz-bang robotic or "keyhole" surgery, leading surgeons say. A source close to the former president who spoke on condition of anonymity said Clinton has told him the surgery was scheduled for Monday morning...
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Bill Clinton was resting comfortably today after a successful quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve clogged arteries. âHe is recovering normally at this point,â said Dr Craig R. Smith, the surgeon who led the four-hour operation.
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Former US President Bill Clinton may undergo coronary-artery bypass surgery early today provided a blood-thinning medicine he received has dissipated, Cable News Network said, citing unidentified people close to Clinton.
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NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton was moved to an operating room early Monday and doctors began preparing him for a heart bypass operation, a hospital source told The Associated Press.    Preparations began at about 6:45 a.m...
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Former President Bill Clinton, a workaholic with a passion for junk food, underwent successful quadruple bypass surgery.
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With heart disease by far the No. 1  cause of death in the United States, former President Bill  Clinton was hardly alone in his need for bypass surgery.
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NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery Monday at a New York hospital and was resting comfortably, his spokesman said.
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Former US President Bill Clinton was described as doing well today, breathing on his own as he recovers from an operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they had posed imminent danger of a major heart attack.
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NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton was in good spirits Saturday, walking around his hospital room in street clothes and buoyed by thousands of get-well messages as he awaited heart bypass surgery early this coming week, people close to the family said.    Clinton's wife and daughter visited him in the hospital Saturday and he had received 15,000 get-well messages relayed from the Web site of his foundation, a spokeswoman said...
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Bill Clinton is a man close to 60, with a little pudge and a longtime love of junk food. That fits the stereotype for heart disease. Needing bypass surgery, however, suggests that the former president's disease is relatively extensive, and that's surprising for an active dignitary who presumably has top-notch and timely physical checkups.
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NEW YORK - Former President Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery Monday at a Manhattan hospital and was resting comfortably, his spokesman said. The medical team that performed the procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia planned a 4 p.m...
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Bill Clinton, the former American president, should be sufficiently on the mend within a few days to leave hospital. Once a quadruple heart bypass patient has climbed a flight of stairs, he is usually deemed fit for discharge.
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NEW YORK - Bill Clinton said he was "a little scared, but not much" of undergoing heart bypass surgery, but was looking forward to a swift recovery and resuming normal activities such as jogging.    The former president was hospitalized Friday with chest pains and shortness of breath...
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: Former President Bill Clinton will have heart bypass surgery early next week after being rushed to a top New York hospital yesterday complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath.
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Former President Bill Clinton was  recovering on Monday after successful quadruple heart bypass  surgery at a New York hospital, and his doctors said he would  have risked a "substantial" heart attack without the operation.
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Clinton, 58, who had complained of chest pain and fatigue (see &quot;Former President Bill Clinton To Undergo Heart Surgery&quot;), had a quadruple-coronary artery-bypass operation at 8 am on Monday, according to CNN.