Kelly Higgins-Devine took the signs seriously when she felt a slight chest ache. It saved her life.
ABC Radio Brisbane Evenings presenter Kelly Higgins-Devine could have ignored the warning when she felt a slight chest pain while walking.
"They came back and said 'you've got two arteries, one that's blocked at 90 per cent and one that's blocked at 70 per cent, and that's not good'," she said.Cardiovascular disease is a leading killer in Australia, affecting more than 4 million people and causing one in four deaths, according to the Heart Foundation statistics.
Higgins-Devine said her own family history of serious heart disease, plus the knowledge that she had complicating factors including an existing diabetes diagnosis, meant she knew to take even the slightest symptom seriously."I deliberately put myself into a very positive mental state about it," she said.
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