chest pain
Heart attack warning
Chest pain is discomfort or pain felt anywhere in the chest, from the shoulders to the ribs.
It ranges from sharp and stabbing to dull and aching.
Chest pain has many causes—muscle strain, heartburn, anxiety, or serious conditions like heart attack or pulmonary embolism.
Because it can signal cardiac emergency, sudden chest pain warrants immediate medical attention: He went to the ER with chest pain.
- shortness of breathDifficulty inhaling enough air
- anginaIschemic chest discomfort
- palpitationsAwareness of abnormal heartbeat
- pressureForce upon contact
- heartCirculatory system's pump
dyspnea · wheezing · fatigue · tightness · ischemia · sharp · myocardial infarction · call 911 · emergency room · thorax · asthma · sternum · pleurisy · cardiac arrest · cold sweat · back · pericarditis · arm
- painache, agony, hurt, hurting, suffering
- symptomsfever, headache, nausea, rash, cough
- body symptomsheadache, headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue
- hurtsaches, burns, cuts, wounds, injures
- side effectsnausea, headache, dizziness, drowsiness, rash
- Cardiac Careheart attack, heart failure, cardiac arrest, EKG, ECG
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Posterior torso discomfort
leg pain · headache · abdominal pain · foot pain · neck pain
chest paincardiac health
Condition of the heart
heart health · clean bill of health · cardiovascular fitness · robust health · asymptomatic
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