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Tell Tale signs of Impending Heart Attack, Weeks Before It Happens

Shikha Saxena
3 min readMay 6, 2022

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Be proactive and notice the signs of heart attack to take timely action

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Heart attacks have some signs that exactly tell you about the upcoming heart problem as chest pain, shortness of breath and pain in chest and arm. But it is also true that body starts sending signals much before impending heart attack. We should notice them and take quick action. There are various tell tale signs of impending heart attack, weeks before it happens.

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What is Heart Attack?

Hear Attack is also called Myocardial Infarction(MI) in medical terms. It happens when blood reaching to the heart is blocked due to presence of either blood clot or narrowed arteries. It is an emergency where heart cells and tissue suddenly lack the supply of oxygen and affect this important organ of the body. Heart muscles are deprived of oxygen and die. The imbalance of oxygen demand and supply cause major harm to muscles.

The plaque rupture due to lack of oxygen results in thrombus(clot) formation in the epicardial artery and resulting in acute shortage of oxygen to surrounding heart muscle. This leads to reduction of…

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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