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Extractions: Advanced Search familydoctor.org Home Conditions A to Z Heart Attack What is a heart attack? How do I know if I'm having a heart attack? What should I do If I think I am having a heart attack? How can I avoid having a heart attack? Printer-friendly version Email this article A heart attack (also called myocardial infarction) is when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it isn't receiving oxygen. Oxygen is carried to the heart by the arteries (blood vessels). Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage in these arteries. Usually the blockage is caused by atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of fatty deposits (called plaque) inside the artery. This buildup is like the gunk that builds up in a drainpipe and slows the flow of water. Heart attacks can also be caused by a blood clot that gets stuck in a narrow part of an artery to the heart. Clots are more likely to form where atherosclerosis has made an artery more narrow. Return to top How do I know if I'm having a heart attack?
Act In Time To Heart Attack Signs
heart attack Signs. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute About this site Resources for Health Professionals Resources for Patients and the Public
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Heart Attack - MayoClinic.com
An overview of signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors, treatments and other important facts.
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American Heart Association
Learn to recognize a heart attack and act quickly when you notice the warning signs. Call 91-1 immediately if you experience symptoms!
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What Is A Heart Attack?
A heart attack occurs when the supply of blood and oxygen to an area of heartmuscle is blocked, usually by a clot in a coronary artery.
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Extractions: A heart attack occurs when the supply of blood and oxygen to an area of heart muscle is blocked, usually by a clot in a coronary artery. Often, this blockage leads to arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat or rhythm) that cause a severe decrease in the pumping function of the heart and may bring about sudden death. If the blockage is not treated within a few hours, the affected heart muscle will die and be replaced by scar tissue. Emergency personnel can often stop arrhythmias with emergency CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), defibrillation (electrical shock), and prompt advanced cardiac life support procedures. If care is sought soon enough, blood flow in the blocked artery can be restored in time to prevent permanent damage to the heart. Yet, most people do not seek medical care for 2 hours or more after symptoms begin. Many people wait 12 hours or longer.
BBC NEWS | Health | Medical Notes | Smoking
Smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than nonsmokers. Half of all smoking deaths are in middle age. Article from the BBC news summarizes.
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Extractions: According to their figures, it is responsible for approximately five million deaths worldwide every year. Tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases, and even the WHO says that its impact on world health is not fully assessed. Heart attack and stroke UK studies show that smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. Tobacco contributes to the hardening of the arteries, which can then become blocked and starve the heart of bloodflow, causing the attack. Often, smokers who develop this will require complex and risky heart bypass surgery.
Heart Attack, Stroke Cardiac Arrest Warning Signs
Know the warning signs of heart attack, stroke and cardiac arrest, and what to do if they appear. You could save someone's life.
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Heart Attack, Stroke & Cardiac Arrest Warning Signs
Know the warning signs of heart attack, stroke and cardiac arrest, and what todo if they appear. You could save someone s life.
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The Heart Attack (1945): He Usually Lived With A Female
An article about a San Francisco newspaperman C.H. Brick Garrigues, separated from his wife, unhappy in his job, a cigarette smoker, trying to become a successful writer, suffers a Myocardial Infarction.
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Extractions: A Los Angeles cop once wrote about Brick Garrigues: "Joined C.P. summer of 1936. Sent by Grover and Gladys Johnson to S.F. to investigate for C.P. in murder trial . . . Member C.P. fraction Newspaper Guild . . . This is the man whose ears were knocked down by Tom Cavett in 1936. Age 30 - 6 ft. 2 in. 195 lbs. Red sandy hair. Unscrupulous writer. Usually lives with a female. Not active lately." I held a mystery in my hand: two sheets of aged paper, browned by the passage of some seventy years, bits and pieces flaking off in my fingers, scattering on the carpet. As I contemplated these brittle pages, I came to realize that I had to find the answers, to find the man behind the words: This man whom I had known for so many years, but had scarcely known at all. This comforter of small children. This wearer of hats and smoker of pipes. This reader and writer of books. This twentieth century man, this flawed man; my father, Charles Harris Garrigues. And so I went looking for him.
Act In Time To Heart Attack Signs
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American Heart Association
Learn more about the American Heart Association s efforts to reduce Learn torecognize a heart attack and act quickly when you notice the warning signs.
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Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate In Community
Report on study in which the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital was found to have dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smokefree ordinance was in effect in the community.
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Extractions: University of California - San Francisco In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the area. The study's authors attribute much of the sharp decline in acute myocardial infarctions (AMI) to a near-elimination of the rapid and harmful effects of secondhand smoke on blood platelets and the arteries that supply blood to the heart. Damage to these and other functions increases the likelihood and seriousness of a cardiovascular "event," they note. In addition, smoke-free environments encourage smokers to stop or reduce smoking, which also reduces heart attack risk, they point out. The findings were reported at the scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago. The study took place in Helena, Montana, where a smoke-free ordinance went into effect June 5, 2002 and was suspended in a legal challenge six months later. One hospital St. Peter's Community Hospital serves almost all cardiac patients in the region, with a population of 65,913.
Heart Attack Warning Signs And Tips On Prevention
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Heart Attack (myocardial Infarction) By MedicineNet.com
Overview on heart attack (myocardial infarction) and heart attack symptomsincluding signs of a heart attack, includes causes, risk factors, prevention,
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Extractions: A heart attack (also known as a myocardial infarction) is the death of heart muscle from the sudden blockage of a coronary artery by a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Blockage of a coronary artery deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, causing injury to the heart muscle. Injury to the heart muscle causes chest pain and pressure. If blood flow is not restored within 20 to 40 minutes, irreversible death of the heart muscle will begin to occur. Muscle continues to die for 6-8 hours at which time the heart attack usually is "complete." The dead heart muscle is replaced by scar tissue. Approximately one million Americans suffer a heart attack each year. Four hundred thousand of them die as a result of their heart attack.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke
American Heart Association secondhand smoke causes heart disease and nearly doubles the risk of heart attack.
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What Causes A Heart Attack
The heart is a pump which requires a continuous supply of oxygenated blood to provide nutrients to the muscles responsible for its action.
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Cholesterol: Medical Information About High Cholesterol, Lowering Cholesterol Le
Additional heart attack Prevention Series Information (related articles).heart attack Prevention Overview Aspirin, Beta Blockers and ACE Inhibitors
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Extractions: Cholesterol is a fatty substance (a lipid ) that is an important part of the outer lining (membrane) of cells in the body of animals. Cholesterol is also found in the blood circulation of humans. The cholesterol in a person's blood originates from two major sources; dietary intake and liver production. Dietary cholesterol comes mainly from meat, poultry, fish, and dairy products. Organ meats, such as liver, are especially high in cholesterol content, while foods of plant origin contain no cholesterol. After a meal, cholesterol is absorbed by the intestines into the blood circulation and is then packaged inside a protein coat. This cholesterol-protein coat complex is called a
ALTACE
Discusses the role ace inhibitors play in prevention of stroke, myocardial infarction and cardiovascular risk reduction.
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Extractions: Prescription ALTACE is not for everyone. ALTACE may cause swelling of the mouth, tongue, or throat, which could cause extremely serious risk and requires immediate medical care. There have been rare reports of low blood sugar in patients taking ALTACE with medicine for diabetes. Please contact your doctor if you have symptoms of low blood sugar such as sweating or shakiness. Common side effects include persistent dry cough, dizziness, and light-headedness due to low blood pressure. Do not take ALTACE during pregnancy, as death or injury to your unborn child may result
MedlinePlus Heart Attack
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Heart Attack - Symptoms And Warning Signs
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Extractions: Spanish version: Sintomas del ataque cardiaco/signos de alerta A blockage in the heart's arteries may reduce or completely cut off the blood supply to a portion of the heart. This can cause a blood clot to form and totally stop blood flow in a coronary artery, resulting in a heart attack (also called an acute myocardial infarction or MI). Irreversible injury to the heart muscle usually occurs if medical help is not received promptly. Unfortunately, it is common for people to dismiss heart attack symptoms. The American Heart Association and other medical experts say the body likely will send one or more of these warning signals of a heart attack: Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes. Pain spreading to the shoulders, neck or arms. The pain may be mild to intense. It may feel like pressure, tightness, burning, or heavy weight. It may be located in the chest, upper abdomen, neck, jaw, or inside the arms or shoulders. Chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.

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