US Senator Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack earlier this week before a stent procedure was conducted to clear an artery, doctors said in a statement released by his presidential campaign. GETTY IMAGES US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack before stent procedure earlier in the week. "Senator Sanders was diagnosed with a myocardial infarction," his treating physicians, Arturo Marchand Jr. and Arjun Gururaj, said in the statement Friday. READ MORE:* Bernie Sanders announces bid for Democratic nomination for president in 2020* Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump: 'There are no nice Nazis'The statement, released after Sanders left the hospital, marked the first time the campaign had acknowledged he had a heart attack. In the statement released by his campaign, Sanders expressed the same sentiment and thanked the doctors and nurses who treated him.

Source: Stuff October 04, 2019 23:26 UTC