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Senator Lindsey Graham’s cause of death: Aortic dissection
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Sen. Lindsey Graham returns to the room for the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 13, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham died of a heart ailment caused by hardening of the arteries, his office says.
A preliminary finding from the medical examiner of the District of Columbia says the cause of death was “aortic dissection,” Graham’s office says in an email.
Aortic dissection is a tear in the main artery that carries blood from the heart. The finding showed it was due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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