FIVE SIGNS OF A HEART ATTACK

There are many factors contribute to an increased risk of heart attack, such as: being a male or a post-menopausal female, or having a strong family history particularly high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, cigarette smoking, a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet. Sadly, even if you have none of these risk factors and seem the least likely individual to have a heart attack, you are still at risk. It would be better to be aware and to be able to recognize the five early warning signs of a heart attack. If you think and feel you may be having a heart attack, call 911 and take an aspirin. Early intervention is an absolute lifesaver.

I'm an old man of 66 years. I'm a diabetic and also suffering from hypertension for quite sometime now. I'm at risk of having a heart disease. What I feared most is a unsolicited heart attack. Thank God I didn't have this complication yet and I don't want it to happen. My blood sugar is under control and so with my blood pressure. I have to be always cautious day in and day out.

It is a well known fact that heart disease is the no. 1 killer in the American adults today. I don't agree that this is only true in the USA but it is also true all over the world, it's a global disease. However in the USA there is a concerted effort to curve this health crisis from massive public awareness campaigns to help adults to adopt heart healthy habits to improve healthy treatment options.

Due to incredible advances in the way the medical practitioners prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease the risk of death has decreased dramatically. In fact according to some medical scientists if you make it to a hospital your risk of dying from a heart attack is less than 10 percent. This is due to the adaptation of rapid response system with CPR, aggressive treatment in the emergency departments and intensive care units.

A recent report from the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) shows that only 31 percent of Americans are aware of the most common early warning symptoms of an impending heart attack. The more quickly we seek care, the better the prognosis. The bottom line: The symptoms of a heart attack have changed. Fifty years ago, the "classic" heart attack was extremely common - hundreds of thousands of middle-aged men experienced a sudden onset of crushing chest pain, profuse sweating, severe anxiety and a strong sense of imminent death. More than half of these attacks were fatal. Today, heart attacks

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