Heart Attack Signals Not Always
About one-third of patients do not experience chest pain as a symptom of a heart attack, according to results of a landmark study by researchers at UAB that appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Cardiologist John Canto, M.D., says the public needs more education about heart attacks. "We need to emphasize that the presence of chest pain is not necessarily the 'golden rule' of heart attacks. And we need to educate both the public and medical providers on the other features and symptoms of heart attacks to facilitate more accurate and expedient diagnoses for these patients who aren't suffering from chest pain." Those most at risk include persons with prior heart failure, women, diabetics and minorities.
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