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HEALTH - A heart attack may not be as scary as we imagine. In fact, most cases of heart attack was realized by the sufferer.
In a study in the United States, a team of researchers trying to figure out how many cases of heart attacks unconscious (silent heart attack) happened to 9,000 people in a period of 9 years of research.
In fact, nearly 45 percent of cases of heart attacks in the category is not realized. The new type of heart attack known when doctors performed an electrocardiogram (EKG) routine.
Although it was not a heart attack is detected, it does not mean harmless.
People who have heart attacks are 34 percent more likely to suffer a premature death than people who did not have heart problems.
"Increased risk of death was largely due to heart attack will damage the heart muscles," said Timothy Byrne, executive director of heart disease in abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital.
Without proper treatment pascaserangan heart, damage to the heart muscle will trigger a subsequent attack, and more conscious patient.
According to Byrne, risk factors such as smoking, unhealthy diet, hypertension, or high cholesterol, heart attack trigger unconscious.
If you've entered the age of four heads and have the above risk factors, or have a family history of heart disease, should do a routine health check-up, including doing EKG.
From the investigation it will be known whether the heart is functioning optimally and can also be seen whether there is damage to the heart that never happened.
