Heart Attack Symptoms

Heart attack: Causes, symptoms, and treatments

A heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by a loss of blood supply. The blood is usually cut off when an artery supplying the heart muscle is blocked by a blood clot.

If some of the heart muscle dies, a person experiences chest pain and electrical instability of the heart muscle tissue.

A heart attack occurs when the flow of blood to the heart is blocked. The blockage is most often a buildup of fat, cholesterol and other substances, which form a plaque in the arteries that feed the heart (coronary arteries).

The plaque eventually breaks away and forms a clot. The interrupted blood flow can damage or destroy part of the heart muscle.

Heart Attack Symptoms App Features:

• Warning Signs of a Heart Attack.

• Heart Attack Symptoms in Women.

• Health Topics.

• Heart Attack Diagnosis & treatment.

• Emergency care for a heart attack.

• Congestive Heart Failure.

• Signs of a Heart Attack.

• Heart Murmur.

• Chest Pain.

• Arrhythmia.

• Heart Attack Symptoms.

• Coronary Artery Disease.