21.   Earlier studies showed that black Medicare beneficiaries, compared to whites, undergo fewer than half as many heart bypass operations or artery-opening angioplasty procedures.

22.   Early reports in foreign media that Yeltsin would have a heart operation in another country, possibly America or Switzerland, brought fast and vehement Kremlin denials.

23.   Eisner himself underwent a heart by-pass operation, which raised fears that there would be no one left to run the store.

24.   Even during the quadruple bypass, a young surgeon stationed himself behind DeBakey so he would be included in a photograph of the master performing the heart operation.

25.   Fearing that his cover was about to be blown, he applied for a permit to travel to Jordan for a heart operation and took his family.

26.   For weeks, physicians have speculated that Yeltsin may have liver disease and other ailments that could pose problems for his heart operation.

27.   For example, the expansion of the cardiac surgery site at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens will mean that most heart operations will be handled in Queens.

28.   Francis, who had had several heart operations, had been using a treadmill before he died, she said.

29.   He credited that to improving mortality rates and medical procedures, such as heart operations, that once would have been considered miraculous.

30.   He stopped smoking cigarettes five years ago after a triple-bypass heart operation, and aside from a leaky heart valve he is in good health.