Top facts about Heart Attacks
Facts about Heart Attacks - Dr Akshay Mehta, Cardiologist at Nanavati Hospital, gives us top facts about heart attacks. These facts will surely help you keep heart attacks at.......
Recognizing Female Heart Attack Symptoms
Chest pain or symptoms of heart attack are often considered as disease or illness of men. But heart attack and coronary artery disease have become common in women as well. Many women also get the char....
Recognizing Male Heart Attack Symptoms
Heart attack has become a leading cause of death in males worldwide. Most of us know that if someone clutches his chest and falls to the floor he probably has a heart attack. But all men do not have s....
How does one know that they are getting a heart attack?
No one symptom or sign can certainly justifiably suggest a heart attack nor can the lack of any sign or symptom justify. The common signs and symptoms include crushing pain in the left side of chest t....
What is the expected duration of Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
How long heart attack symptoms last varies from person to person. In about 15% of cases, the patient never reaches a hospital for treatment and dies quickly after symptoms.......
What are the symptoms of Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
The most common symptom of a heart attack is chest pain, usually described as crushing, squeezing, pressing, heavy, or occasionally, stabbing or burning. Although this pain can occur at any time, a gr....
How can one prevent Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
You can help to prevent a heart attack by controlling your risk factors for atherosclerosis, especially high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes. If you have high cholesterol,....
Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction: When to seek medical help?
Seek emergency help immediately if you have chest pain, even if you think it is just indigestion or that you are too young to be having a heart attack. Prompt treatment increases your chance of limiti....
What is the prognosis of Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
About 15% of patients who suffer a heart attack die before they reach a hospital, and another 15% die after they arrive. Among the remaining 70% who survive hospitalization, about 4% (1 in 25) will di....
What is the treatment of Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
The treatment of a heart attack depends on how stable the person's condition is and his or her immediate risk of death. Usually, the doctor will give the patient an aspirin to chew in the emergency ro....
What is Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
A heart attack occurs when one of the heart's coronary arteries is blocked suddenly, usually by a tiny blood clot (thrombus). The blood clot typically forms inside a coronary artery that alread....
What is the diagnosis of Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction?
Your doctor will ask you to describe your chest pain and any other symptoms. Ideally, a family member or close friend should accompany you when you go for medical treatment. This person can help to pr....
Preventing Winter Heart Attacks
The chances of having a heart-attack in winter are greater than other seasons, so by taking the necessary measures to prevent a winter heart attack, you are certainly promoting a longer and healthie....
7 Ways to Never Have a Heart Attack
The pain of a heart attack is something everyone fears will happen to them some day. Heart problems are synonymous with older people of course, as their hearts tend to be weaker and more sensitive t....
Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
Chest pain or discomfort has long been seen as the most common early warning sign of a heart attack. But recent research has raised questions about whether this holds true for.......
The signs of a heart attack
A heart attack is a frightening event—you probably don’t want to think about it. However, if you learn the signs of a heart attack and what steps to take, you can save a life—perhaps....
If you have diabetes you are at high risk of heart attack and stroke
Heart disease is more likely to strike you—and at an earlier age—than someone without diabetes. But you can fight back. Be smart about your heart. Take control of the ABCs of diabetes and ....
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