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A blood test to detect heart attacks

Posted in Cardiovascular Sciences, Diagnosis, Emergency care, Heart Attack • Tags: , , ,

Can you recognize the signs of a heart attack? Although heart attacks can happen suddenly accompanied by the unmistakable chest pain - basically the attacks portrayed in films - most heart attacks start slowly and mildly so that they may be ignored, taken for granted, or misdiagnosed. According to the Medline Medical Encyclopedia:

A heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (MI) occurs when one of the arteries that supplies the heart muscle becomes blocked. Blockage may be caused by spasm of the artery or by atherosclerosis with acute clot formation. The blockage results in damaged tissue and a permanent loss of contraction of this portion of the heart muscle.

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Posted on October 22, 2008 by Raquel Billiones • There are no comments, hop to it!