Please share an interesting fact about angina and chest pain.

If: If you have smoked or have risk factors for heart disease, you shouldn't ignore new chest pain.

Aspirin: Aspirin is the best preventive.

With: With an effective diet, exercise and medication program, you can live a reasonable quality of life.

All: All chest pain is not angina pectoris, many other causes of chest pain exist.

Stomach: Myth: stomach pain cannot be related to your heart.

Call: Call the doctor asap if you are having chest pain.

Chest: That chest pain is always due to angina is a myth.

Pressure/tightness: Pressure/tightness in chest is usually heart-related; burning chestpain is usually from acid reflux.

Chest: Chest pain in young people is usually from muscle strain, anxiety/panic attack. If unsure see your doctor.

Testosterone: Testosterone in low t-males with angina immediately increases work on a stress test. Vasodilator!

Your: Your Nitroglycerin loses its potency over time if left uncapped or exposed to sunlight. Replace when expired.

Always: Always tell your doctor if your angina starts happening with less activity. It could save your life.

Although: Although more expensive ntg comes as a spray formulation as well and may travel better.

You: You don't need to have chest pain to have angina. Many patients have a different angina equivalent.

Angina: Angina isn't always an "elephant on my chest" feeling. It can be tight, burning like indigestion.

Tesosterone: Testosterone immediately vasodilates coronary vessels! all anginal males: check free testosterone!

Women: Myth: women often don't have significant chest pain from a true myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Myth:: Myth: Nitroglycerin only relieves angina. Fact: it can alleviate musculoskeletal & GI pain as well.

If: If low t, testosterone will improve angina. Have your doctor check your level!

Chest pain male: Myth: all patients have typical (the same) symptoms of angina and ischemia.

Doxycycline,: Doxycycline, a common antibiotic, will cause severe esophagitis if sticks to the esophagus..Mi?

Nitroglycerin: Nitroglycerin for angina and viagra (sildenafil) should not be taken together.

Women: Women have different symptoms than men when it comes to angina. Seek medical advice with chest pain.

Myth: It's a myth that a normal ekg rules out significant coronary disease. It does not.

Many: Many times symptoms can be similar to upper gastrointestinal symptoms so seek immediate attention.

Symptoms: Symptoms are only after atherosclerosis is advanced. Best to do what works decades before symptoms.

Heart: Heart disease, cancer, homicide, diabetes, infant death: 5 conditions that limit us life expectancy.

Getting: Getting rid of your pain doesn't prolong your life. Eating things that clean your arteries does.

Chest: Chest pain does not necessarily be cardiac angina. Get evaluated for other conditions giving chest p.

Most: Most cases of chest pain are not caused by angina. But those that are, are most dangerous.

Angina: Angina is not the type of pain that can wait for an office visit. It requires a trip to E.R. Asap.

Myth:: Myth: everyone feels the same symptoms if they have angina.

Most: Most reproducible, persistent sharp chest pains are not angina.

A: A strained heart may cause pain if the rhythm part is involved all may be in vain.

Angina: Angina can feel like indigestion but it is much more serious.

When: When oxygen supply to heart is less than what it needs (e.g. Blockage in coronaries), angina occurs.

People: Myth: people with anginal chest pain always get heart attacks.

More: More than 50% of ischemic spells (inadequate oxygenation of heart tissues) occur without symptoms cp.

Most: Most chest pain is not angina but chest wall. Yet angina may be only warning sign before mi or death.

Most: Most effective way to stop angina? Relax+nitroglycerin spray, not pills, under tongue, always carry!

Second: Second most effective tools for angina? Hi-dose statin + aspirin. But slow onset & may be too late.

Why: Why does Aspirin tend to reduce heart attacks? It slows blood clotting & clots block blood flow.

Do: Do aspirin, warfarin, heparin, clopidogrel etc thin blood? Absolutely not! they slow blood clotting.

The: The longer the chest pain last equals bigger mi risk.

Patients: Patients with chest pain of short duration, less than 5 minutes, are unlikely to have a mi.

Patients: Patients with ischemic heart disease and positive attitude less likely to die at 5 years.

The: The biggest modifiable risk factor for heart disease is smoking.

Most: Most common cause of chest pain is non-cardiac.

Angina: Angina does not always feels like an elephant sitting on your chest, spreading to your left arm.

If: If you have diabetes the typical warning symptoms of angina may be absent or may present as nauseau.

Chest: Myth: chest pain is always present in heart disease. Fact: no, especially not in women.

If: If the bloodflow is reduced to the back side of the heart, symptoms are:nausea ; fatigue, not angina.

Aspirin: Aspirin reduces strokes ; heart attacks as well as colon cancers and melanomas.

Ignore: Not all chest pain is cardiac, although heart disease is common and should be evaluated.

Doxycycline: Doxycycline refluxed or stuck in your esophagus can mimic a heart attack!

Myth:: Myth: cholesterol. Reality: wbcs ↑ in wall of arteries, which enlarge, plaque rupture trigger clots.

Stress: Stress tests detect artery disease. Reality: totally miss until very advanced; after most small mis.

Women: Women often present with symptoms that are not the traditional ones, can even be back pain.

Each: Each LDL particle carries ~3, 000 to 6, 000 fat molecules. How many are cholesterol? Varies widely.

What: What is cholesterol? A fat made by every animal cell, part of every cell membrane, allows movement.

Is: Is cholesterol bad? No! part of every animal cell membrane: cells can change shape, animals can move.

Which: Which foods drive increased LDL particle concentrations? Simple carbohydrates, sugar; not nat. Fats.

Angio: Angio ; stress tests work well? No! see: http://www.Nejm.Org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm198705283162204.

Angina: Angina can occur with pain down your right arm.

Self-teaching: Self-teaching ; choosing accuracy + excellence (over usual medicine) are likely to restore health.

Ignore: Take a nitro before activity to decrease your angina.

Ignore: Women and diabetics can have a less definitive type of angina.

Ignore: Angina is never a fleeting pain of a few seconds duration.

Ignore: La angina es un dolor en el pecho puede ser provocado por ejercicio o sin estímulo de ejercicio.