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Heart disease Signs and symptoms
Signs of heart failure:
Symptoms of heart failure:
- Heart attack
- MI Symptoms: chest, thumb, and back pains that are not relieved by rest or medications(nitrates)
- Lightheadedness
- Anxiety, nervousness, paleness, increased, and irregular heart rate
- Chest pain is relieved by "Angina" ischemic heart disease medications and rest
- Heart failure -when the heart is fatigued
Symptoms of heart failure:
- Difficulty breathing
- Can't pump blood effectively enough
- Dependent on Edema(medication) to meet the bodies metabolic standard
- Steady weight gain
- Nausea
- Heart failure
- Chest tightness
- Slowed mental response
- Anorexia
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