Man in UK dies from heart attack caused by nail biting habit

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"John Gardener died weeks after his 40th birthday from a heart attack caused by a septic infection, which he contracted from his extreme nail biting habit.

He bit his nails until it killed him.
A 40-year-old British man had such a chronic nail biting habit that it led to a fatal infection, an inquest into his death found.
John Gardener, from Lancashire, contracted septicemia because the skin around his fingernails was constantly open to the point of bleeding, doctors said, according to a report in the Mirror.
The blood infection affected his heart, triggering a heart attack days after his 40th birthday. He died in the hospital after doctors worked for two weeks to save him."
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