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Do you know what the silent heart attack symptoms are? You must have heard of minor heart attack or major heart attack but the silent heart attack may still be for many of you a little confusing. Though you may admit that you have no any idea of silent heart attack, you know well what they are. It is only the term “silent” that causes a dilemma in the mind when used with the heart attack. You must be well introduced with the myocardial infarction (MI), a heart attack emerging with the chest pain and the silent heart attack belongs to the same condition. But its symptoms somehow differ from the MI making the silent heart attack a most dreaded cardiac disease which affects mostly the old people. The individuals affected from silent heart attack are found reaching the grave much earlier than those affected from common heart attack or MI.

Timely diagnosis and effective treatment help the heart patients recover speedily while apathy or negligence exacerbates the condition causing untimely death. The cardiac patients, affected of the myocardial infarction are required to be checked up clinically to confirm whether there is any symptom of silent heart attack or not, for maximum number of the heart patients do not happen to be aware of the silent heart attack symptoms and succumb easily to such dreaded heart disease. It has been found that a large number of the individuals, due only to an ignorance on their part of the actual symptoms of silent heart attack, allow the disease reluctantly to hit them. Before they take any remedial step to deal with symptoms of silent heart attack, the problem gets much aggravated damaging internal tissues of their heart and causing untimely death. It is the only reason that the patients, susceptible to cardiac disease, are advised by the doctors to call at 911 on experiencing even a minor chest pain (angina pectoris) that causes a mild heart attack (aka myocardial infarction) to ensure that silent heart attack is non-existent.  

It is the scarcity of oxygenated or fresh blood in the heart that triggers heart attack preceded by heart pain. Lack of proper blood and oxygen inside the heart damages cells and tissues thereof causing a pain and suffocation to the heart patient who encounters mild or major heart attack depending upon the internal portion of his/her heart being damaged. A heart attack becomes a serious problem when heart does not receive the blood. Though a common heart attack can affect anyone else due to either to mental stress, use of tobacco products or smoking, the silent heart attack affects mostly the old people (above 65 in age) and diabetic patients. The old men and women are susceptible to the silent heart attack symptom, which sends them to grave only. As the name revels, a silent heart attack doesn’t let the careless patients take prompt remedial steps and causes sudden death silently.

Symptoms of silent heart attack

The symptoms of silent heart attack are detected clinically or through medical checkups only. And it is the medical examination which reveals the clots in the arteries of heart (aka thrombolysis). But a few problems such as squeezing, a tremendous pressure exerted within the heart, weakness and a sudden pain radiating to the arms, are some of the vivid symptoms of the silent heart attack.

Treatment of silent heart attack

Taking aspirin or acetaminophen tabs are the effective way to control the pain but for a while as consulting the doctor is needed to get rid of the silent heart attack symptoms.