Silent heart attack is the attack which develops without any obvious symptoms and very often patients with diabetic history or old-age people are prone to get this type of heart attack. It is unfortunate to note that twice the number of people die of silent heart attack when compared with that of heart attack with intense chest pain and other symptoms. There will not be any visible symptoms and hence the affected person is not aware of myocardial infarction and that is why there is double the number of casualty in silent heart attack.
Myocardial infarction (heart attack in medical terms) is really dramatic involving intense chest pain and loss of breath among the affected victims. Any type of heart attack, for that matter is quite serious and must be treated immediately. The recovery of the patient depends entirely on the speed at which he is taken to the hospital.
What is heart attack?
As you all know that heart is the vital organ that pumps oxygenated blood to the entire body and due to some reasons, coronary artery that takes blood to the heart gets blocked. This may result in reduction of blood flow which in turn will damage the muslces of the heart. Heart attack occurs when there is severe damage to the blood flow level and it can range from mild to intense.
Silent heart attack is really different from regular attacks in which there will be at least discomfort or pain in the shoulder, arms and even neck. Here the symptoms are severe that it cannot be ignored and the affected individual will be rushed to hospital. With respect to silent attacks, only few victims will experience pain and other signs and others leave it unnoticed.
Who are at risk?
Anyone can get silent heart attack if the blood vessels that carry blood gets blocked or weakened. However old age people and individuals who have history of diabetics are more prone to get heart attack than others.