Heart Attack Warning Signs in Men

Surprising it is, but heart attacks was actually considered to be a problem, dominant only amongst men and so, the studies of this disease was focused only around men. This is also evident by the many advertisements which portray a house wife cooking healthy food for her husband in order to keep him away from any heart diseases.
However, latest researches have now established the fact, that the problem can also affect the ladies, though they may not suffer from so pronounced symptoms, as men do. The below description will give you a fair idea about the different heart attack warning signs in men.

Heart Attack Symptoms in Men


It has been found in most cases, that heart attacks come with no symptoms in advance and so, can be considered asymptomatic. Such silent heart attacks, as they are known, are suffered mostly by diabetes mellitus patients. Nevertheless, when the heart attack symptoms in men do occur, they include chest discomfort or chest pain, breathing problems, a squeezing or crushing feeling on the chest and heart burn. Pain of the jaw, toothache, headaches, nausea, vomiting, cold sweating and indigestion are also related to the heart attack warning signs in men.

Fullness in the chest, feeling of discomfort in the back, neck or stomach, lightheadedness, general fatigue and upper back pain are also some of the characteristic heart attack warning signs. Arm pain on the left side or left shoulder pain may be felt radiating all the way from the chest and jaw.

Some severe heart attack warning signs in men which may crop up, are loss of consciousness and even absence of pulse. The victim may develop dilated pupils and in extreme cases cyanosis (a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes; a sign that oxygen in the blood is dangerously diminished ) or pallor (unnatural lack of color in the skin). Apart from heart attack symptoms in men, general epigastric (upper middle abdomen) discomfort, fainting, anxiety and palpitations also forecast the probability of a heart attack. These are not all, dyspnea (difficult or labored respiration ) and diaphoresis ( the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid) are the ones which indicate that there should be no further delay in calling for medical help.

These were the many heart attack warning signs in men, in a nutshell. Now, as I did mention about women, here are the warning symptoms of heart attack which they suffer from. Although, they might also have traditional symptoms, according to doctors, the three most common ones which they come up with are shortness of breath, weakness and unusual fatigue. Cold sweats, nausea or lightheadedness may also show up, as in case of men. The severe chest pain which is one of the most common heart attack warning signs in men, has been known to occur in less than one-third of women. Know about the heart attack symptoms in women.

The heart attack warning signs in men, which have been cited above, occur just before or during a heart attack. This is however, not in the case of women. They may develop the symptoms, a month or more before the heart attack.

As a conclusion to this piece of heart attack warning signs in men, I would also like to add a small brief on the reason, as to why does men become more prone to suffer from so many symptoms of heart attack and heart attack itself? The reason lies in the fact, that men tend to have more sever obstructions further towards the end of the coronary arteries, that accommodate some blood flow to the heart. This results in extreme clotting and obstruction of the coronary arteries. This may be the reason why women suffer heart attacks, ten years later than men, on an average.

By Rajib Singha