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Painless Heart Attack More Deadly

Tuesday August 10, 2004
Typically a person having a heart attack experiences severe crushing chest pain as one of the common symptoms. Some people however have heart attacks without the pain (this is especially true of women). They experience other symptoms that include sweating, nausea, faintness and shortness of breath. These painless heart attacks are not diagnosed or treated as quickly leading to a higher death rate among sufferers.
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