Often feel pain in your chest? Do not underestimate the pain if it attacked over 15 minutes. Could be, that early symptoms of heart attack if left unchecked can cause sudden death.
Specialist Heart and blood vessels, Dr.. P. Tedjasukmana, SpJP, say, pain in the chest more than 15 minutes is the main characteristic of a heart attack.
"The pain usually occurs behind the breastbone, like a heavy pressure, it can also prickling and is usually accompanied by respiratory distress, sweating, berlangusng more than 15 minutes and the pain is more intense," he said in the talk show "Pfizer 3 Ring Care cholesterol ', in Jakarta, Saturday, July 2, 2011.
Dr. Tedja added feature is a pain in the chest that the heart attack symptoms usually appear suddenly in the middle of physical activity, like sports.
However, the symptoms were most easily detected in older men. Those aged 72 years and over and women are more difficult to detect these symptoms. Therefore, the pain that attack is often more subtle and tend to not feel strong.
According to him, the manifestation of heart attack can also be the same as the stomach pain, but its main characteristic was chest pain, pallor and shortness of breath. Therefore, he asked the people are always alert to the slightest disturbance in the cardiovascular area.
"The sooner go to the doctor, these problems will be more easily treated. Do not wait too long to go to the doctor. The more damage, higher risk of death," he said.
• VIVAnews
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