Heart attack is one of the most dangerous cardiovascular events of all. Every year in Italy there are about 120,000 cases, and most of these turn out to be lethal.
What everyone knows is that heart attack comes with classic left arm pain, which then radiates to the chest. This is unquestionably true, were it not that this is a symptom that, in most cases, occurs close to the event.
Science has found different symptoms that can occur several weeks before the heart attack arrives. Important research by the American Heart Association (AHA) found that as many as 70.7% of the cases analyzed had a common symptom.
When? About a month earlier. This is why we must pay particular attention to the signals that our body sends us and speak to a doctor.
Revealed the warning signal that our body sends us 30 days before the heart attack
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In 2003, the AHA conducted scientific studies on a sample of 515 women. The common aspect was that they had all survived a heart attack.
A common symptom
One month before the heart attack, almost all of the women (70.7%) said they experienced unusual fatigue. The characteristic feature is that this sense of fatigue had no logical explanation. The other common symptoms were sleep disturbances and shortness of breath.
Contrary to what one might think, only 29.7% had experienced a feeling of discomfort in the chest. This symptom, in fact, is more frequent in the male population. Here is revealed the warning signal that our body sends us 30 days before the heart attack, but we must underline a detail. Unusual fatigue, in fact, is a symptom common to various pathologies, and for this reason it cannot be immediately connected to a heart attack.
Despite this, it is right to listen to the signals that our body sends us and consult our trusted doctor who will know how to direct us.
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