Heart Attacks

How To Tell If You Are Having A Heart Attack

Everyone knows that the heart is a vital organ and that we cannot live without it. This year about 1.2 million Americans will have a first or recurrent heart attack. About 479,000 of these people will die. Most people who have experienced a heart attack have never felt a symptom, or recognized what the symptoms are. Heart attacks happen in many different ways and the discomfort can come and go, which makes it easier to blame it on something else. Often the people affected wait too long before getting help, which can cause more damage or even death.

The heart is a powerful organ about the size of your fist that pumps blood throughout your body. The pumping action causes the heartbeat or pulse which pumps blood that is high in oxygen to the body through your veins and arteries. After the body uses the oxygen,