Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest: What’s the Difference?   Common Symptoms of a Heart Attack and Stroke.

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  1. List and discuss the Risk Factors for Heart Disease.

 

  • Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest: What’s the Difference?

 

  • Common Symptoms of a Heart Attack and Stroke.
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-Heart attack occurs when one of the coronary artery gets blocked, which in turn harms the supply of blood flow to the heart and the heart will start dieing due to the lack of oxygen.

-Where as cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops pumping the blood around the body and the breathing is stopped as the result.

-A heart attack is usually a circulation problem where as the cardiac arrest is an electrical problem.

-Most of the heart attacks don't lead to cardiac arrest where as sudden cardiac arrest leads to heart attack  .

-Symptoms of a cardiac arrest include no breathing, no pulse and sudden loss of conscious ness, where as the symptoms of heart attack are sweating, weakness, palpitations, shortness of breath , coughing and wheezing etc.

 

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