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A 37-year-old miner died at work last night in one of the mines near the Madan, Darik learned. Initial information is about a health issue, not an accident at work. It is believed that the young man had a heart attack or stroke during a shift.

Due to the sharp temperature change in recent days there is an increase of heart attacks and strokes reported in the Emergency Relief in Sofia.

1294 are the signals that emergency medical staff have responded to over the past two days, Nova TV reported. Emergency medics report a boom in cardiovascular disease, strokes and heart attacks.

Her name is Christina Zafiriou and she causes hysteria in the social media!

She is a well-known Greek designer who, besides her talent in clothes, has a body to die for.

Indeed, she showed us her new swimsuit collection herself and caused a few strokes in the process!

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Nazmiye Kocakulak, a writer who learned to read and write at the age of 62, suffered a brain hemorrhage while being interviewed live on private Turkish broadcaster TV8 on Nov. 30, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Kocakulak joined the show in Istanbul to talk about her newly released book on her life, titled "Alone."   

Great Greek actor Minas Hatzisavvas has passed away on Monday at 20:29 at Evagelismos hospital where he was admitted a week ago with a blood haemorrhage after suffering a stroke.

The actor was rushed to the hospital in a coma and the doctors had characterized his condition as critical.

A new study from japan found that people who couldn’t stand on one leg for 20 seconds or longer had a greater likelihood to suffer brain changes that led to strokes and dementia than others. Those who had difficulty with the test also scored lower on tests scoring cognitive function.

Nearly one third of all deaths worldwide are caused by cardiovascular diseases, announced by the Bulgarian Society of Cardiology.

In Europe, over 4 million people die of cardiovascular diseases every year. The most common among these are the coronary artery disease and the stroke, Bulgarian National Radio notes.

The number of Greeks suffering strokes outnumber those getting heart attacks according to a medical report set to be unveiled at a clinical cardiology congress scheduled to take place in Athens on Apri 25-26.