HEART DISEASE: THEINSULIN CONNECTION
Nancy Bradley dropped her dog’s leash when she suddenly felt a crushing pressure like someone was sitting on her chest. A shot of pain ran up her neck into her jaw and down her left arm simultaneously. A month earlier she had gone to the hospital with milder sensations like this, but they had dissipated while she waited in the emergency room. Then, an ECG and blood tests hadn’t shown anything abnormal, so a doctor sent her home with a bottle of antacids.
She was skeptical; both her older brother and sister had suffered heart attacks, and her dad had died following a quadruple bypass at age 53. Nancy was 57. Now, on a warm morning in August 2017 as she walked her terrier mix Marley alone on a forest trail, the agony returned with a vengeance.
At first, she thought her struggle for breath was caused by the smoke from wildfires that had hung in the air for weeks and settled on the mountain landscape in Kamloops, British Columbia, like a sea fog. As nausea swept over her and she started
