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About 2 of 3 people who suffered heart attacks, a few days before the attack chest pain is intermittent, shortness of breath or fatigue.
Chest pain more often arise even after a mild physical activity. Unstable angina like this could end up being a heart attack.
At mid-chest pain radiating to the back, jaw or left arm, or more rarely spreads to the right arm.
Pain may occur in those places without chest pain at all.
Pain in heart attacks is similar to angina pain but more intense and longer, not relieved by rest or administration nitroglliserin.
Sometimes the pain is felt in the abdomen and misinterpreted as one meal, especially since after patients burp a little pain diminished or disappeared for a while.
Other symptoms are feeling like going to faint and palpitations.
Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) can affect the heart's pumping ability or may lead to cardiac arrest (heart stops pumping effectively), resulting in loss of consciousness or death.
During the attack, the patient may feel restless, sweaty and anxious and could feel his death will come soon.
Lips, hands and legs look bluish.
Elderly patients could be disoriented (dazed).
As many as 1 in 5 people who suffered heart attacks, have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all
Heart attack like this could only be identified from routine ECG examination some time later
Chest pain more often arise even after a mild physical activity. Unstable angina like this could end up being a heart attack.
At mid-chest pain radiating to the back, jaw or left arm, or more rarely spreads to the right arm.
Pain may occur in those places without chest pain at all.
Pain in heart attacks is similar to angina pain but more intense and longer, not relieved by rest or administration nitroglliserin.
Sometimes the pain is felt in the abdomen and misinterpreted as one meal, especially since after patients burp a little pain diminished or disappeared for a while.
Other symptoms are feeling like going to faint and palpitations.
Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) can affect the heart's pumping ability or may lead to cardiac arrest (heart stops pumping effectively), resulting in loss of consciousness or death.
During the attack, the patient may feel restless, sweaty and anxious and could feel his death will come soon.
Lips, hands and legs look bluish.
Elderly patients could be disoriented (dazed).
As many as 1 in 5 people who suffered heart attacks, have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all
Heart attack like this could only be identified from routine ECG examination some time later