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Last Updated: Aug 29, 2019
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What is Heart Attack ??

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Dr. Krish VaidyaCardiologist • 13 Years Exp.M.B, PGD Cardiology, Fellow. Diabetology
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Many people nowadays have common question. Is my chest pain related to cardiac disease? or is it a heart attack?

Heart attack.
What is it?
- heart attack or angina-typical chest pain occurs when one or more blood vessels of heart get blocked and heart's own blood supply stops- heart muscle suffers of oxygen and nutrition deficit and gets damaged or dies!

What are the symptoms?
- a severe chest pain like some one stabs in your chest with a knife. Some people feel severe compression or heaviness in chest. Pain of heart attack can also be felt in left side of body like- in left hand, shoulder, lower jaw etc.

Associated symptoms are- breathlessness, heavy perspiration, nausea, vomiting etc.
As soon as you find these symptoms. Just rush to nearest hospital.