Heart Attacks Without Chest Pain Common.Just because you don't have chest pain doesn't mean you aren't having a heart attack. A nationwide study of more than 400,000 heart attack patients showed one third of them arrived at a hospital without complaining of acute chest pain. Yet these patients are more likely to delay seeking treatment, receive less aggressive treatment at the hospital, and are more than twice as likely to die from the heart attack. Medical experts say heart attack symptoms other than chest pain include pain or discomfort in the back, jaw, neck, shoulder, arm, or stomach; shortness of breath Shortness of Breath Definition Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, is a feeling of difficult or labored breathing that is out of proportion to the patient's level of physical activity. ; sweating; irregular heart rhythms Noun 1. heart rhythm - the rhythm of a beating heart cardiac rhythm regular recurrence, rhythm - recurring at regular intervals atrioventricular nodal rhythm, nodal rhythm - the normal cardiac rhythm when the heart is controlled by the ; fainting spells; general weakness; and sudden indigestion indigestion or dyspepsia, discomfort during or after eating caused by some interference with the normal digestive process. Symptoms include nausea, heartburn, abdominal pain, gas distress, and a feeling of abdominal distention. . (Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. ) |
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