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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health.sPubDate = "3/5/2007 10:00:28 PM GMT";
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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Treated for a blood clot in his left calf, following a nine-day trip through Asia and the Middle East.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "His annual physical shows that the pacemaker is working properly and his overall heart condition. A stress test on a treadmill is scheduled for the fall.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Cheney experiences shortness of breath and goes to the hospital. The problem is attributed to fluid retention as a result of medication he was taking for a foot ailment. He is placed on a diuretic and released.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Cheney enters the hospital after complaining of shortness of breath. He leaves after three hours. An aide says tests find no abnormalities.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Cheney returns to the hospital and has a special pacemaker, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, inserted into his chest. During his 2004 annual checkup, doctors say the device never has activated automatically to regulate, which they say means the heart is functioning normally.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Just over 100 days later, Cheney feels chest pains and has another angioplasty to reopen the same artery.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Cheney has what doctors called a \"very slight\" heart attack, his fourth. He has an angioplasty to open a clogged artery. After this heart attacks, Cheney begins a daily 30-minute regimen on the treadmill and eating healthier. He takes medication to lower his cholesterol. He quit smoking in 1978.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "After a third heart attack, Cheney has quadruple bypass surgery in August to clear clogged arteries.";

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Pol_070305_Cheney_Health[i-1].body = "Cheney's first heart attack, at age 37.";

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