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What is the difference between a panic attack and a heart attack?
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Panic attacks: Panic attacks are psychologic reactions which can have symptoms which mimic those of heart attack. A real heart attack is caused by a heart blood vessel blocking off and damaging a part of the heart. Heart attack can be fatal. Panic attack usually isn't fatal but can be psychologically incapacitating.
Answered 5/12/2016
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One is due: To nervousness and the other due to lack of blood flow to heart muscle.
Answered 3/29/2013
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