We call this person the early heart attack care giver who we will be talking more about. Yes, it can be helped. We have seen that risk factor reduction when the disease is in the incubation stage can reduce heart disease. What we need is the identification of a risk factor when the heart attack is starting. Chest pain is that risk factor and we have to understand it.
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Let's put this under a microscope and look at what is taking place. Somewhere in there, a tear in the building plaque takes place and serves as the event marker for the acute event and the heart attack begins. Thus, before chest pain there is in most cases a milder form of chest discomfort that is centrally located coming and going that may be present for hours to days before the chest pain becomes severe and does not go away. The real problem of the heart attack situation lies here, in that patients don't come into the hospital until the Mack truck is sitting on the chest or when the crash takes place. The early symptoms are called prodromal and can he likened to the prodromal symptoms of a cold.