{"id":17389,"date":"2026-07-13T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/lindsey-graham-death-aortic-dissection-cardiovascular-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:00:24","slug":"lindsey-graham-death-aortic-dissection-cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/lindsey-graham-death-aortic-dissection-cardiovascular-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Senator Lindsey Graham&#8217;s Death Revealed as Aortic Dissection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s medical examiner&#8217;s office has released its preliminary report stating that Lindsey Graham, the 71-year-old Republican senator from South Carolina, died from an aortic rupture caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to the findings published, the cause of death was identified as &#8216;aortic dissection,&#8217; a serious condition that occurs due to a tear in the inner layer of the body&#8217;s main artery and is usually associated with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>This report was also issued by Senator Graham&#8217;s office, which has not provided further details about his health condition in the days leading up to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, his office had only announced his passing following a sudden illness and did not disclose the exact cause of death. Graham was known as a prominent figure in the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary report reveals Senator Lindsey Graham died from aortic dissection caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, confirms medical examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}