July 12th, 2008 
Von by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
In the movies, heart attacks are easy to recognize. The victim, sweaty and pale, suddenly clutches his chest and complains of terrible pain just before he drops to the floor. “That’s the typical textbook definition of what it should look like,” says noted cardiologist Dr. Benjamin Alimurung, head of the Cardiac Catheterization Unit and medical director of Makati Medical Center. “But if you’re older, female or diabetic, you’re less likely to experience the classic symptoms of a heart attack.”
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the Philippines. Every year, thousands of people have heart attacks and about a third of these are fatal. Almost half of heart attack deaths occur within one hour after symptoms appear and often before the person even gets to a hospital. Thus, it is very important that you know its symptoms and act quickly when these appear — it may save your life. It is equally important that one realizes that some symptoms are atypical, some you might not even think are related to the heart.
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