What symptom does heart attack have?

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Heart disease is a kind of disease with obvious symptoms. Not only that, patients with heart disease must be sent to the hospital in time when they have a heart attack, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. Usually, the symptoms are pain, convulsion, facial expression and respiratory changes in the precordial area. Here are the symptoms of heart disease

What symptom does heart attack have?

Dyspnea, left ventricular dysfunction caused by pulmonary blood stasis, often induce dyspnea. At the beginning, it was often exertional dyspnea, which improved after rest. With the development of the disease, paroxysmal dyspnea at night, forced sitting breathing, can not supine, the symptoms of heart disease are often accompanied by cough, and even hemoptysis. Pulmonary edema may occur in severe cases.

Chest pain, caused by angina pectoris, is mostly located behind the sternum, showing a sense of compression or stuffy pain, and radiates to the left upper limb or neck. It is mostly caused by physical activity, emotional excitement or satiety, lasting for 1-5 minutes each time, rarely more than 15 minutes. The chest pain caused by acute myocardial infarction lasts for a long time, about half an hour to several hours. The attack may have nothing to do with the activity. Other such as acute pericarditis, pulmonary embolism can also cause chest pain, combined with the incidence, signs and other examinations can be identified.

Edema is a common symptom of heart disease with right heart failure. The location of cardiogenic edema is closely related to body position. For example, edema in the early stage of right heart failure occurs in the lower limbs, which is often obvious in the evening after daytime activities, and disappears after a night's rest.

matters needing attention

quit smoking. Smokers are twice as likely to have heart disease as nonsmokers. The study found that two to three years after quitting smoking, the risk of heart disease will drop to the same level as non-smokers. Pay attention to your diet. Daily life to eat low-fat food, such as lean meat and low-fat dairy products.