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Researches by different physicians and national and international institutes indicate that there are a number of symptoms of heart attack. These symptoms include Chest discomfort, discomfort in other areas of upper body, shortness of breath, breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness (Heart.org, 2011).

While men typically feel the crushing chest pain often associated with heart attacks, women's symptoms tend to seem unrelated to chest pain. This is the reason it the considered that very small number of women die of heart attack, which is completely a fallacious assumption. People relate heart attack with chest pain. Men feel severe chest pain which is undoubtedly a symptom of heart attack. Contrary, women either do not feel severe pain in their chest or they do not realize it. Researchers found that very few number of women reported of chest pain prior to heart attack. This is not because they do not feel the pain but they are tougher than men. As after childbirth, chest pain is nothing. (Canto, 2007) While men feel physical pain in the upper part of their body, women experience nausea and even vomiting during a heart attack. These symptoms sometimes erroneously diagnosed as stomach disorder. Other symptoms that women feel during a heart attack is trouble sleeping, feeling nervous or scared, trouble breathing, a burning feeling in the chest, and ache between the shoulders. These symptoms are so common in everyday lives that physicians and even heart specialists cannot generalize it as mere symptoms of heart attack. Jean McSweeney, PhD, RN, said that symptoms such as sleep disturbances, indigestion, fatigue or weakness in the arms, which many of us experience on a daily basis, were recognized by many women in the study as warning signals for AMI. Since the symptoms of heart attack are not predictable in women ...