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What can you do to tell the difference in a heart attack & a stroke?

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Chest and brain: Heart attack is damage to heart stroke is damage to brain some heart attack patients may be from emboli, or have low cardiac output and also damage brain with hypoxia both have some common risk! smoking obesity high blood pressure diabetes hyperlipemia prevention is best.

Answered 4/6/2013

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Different: A heart attack is heart damage due to lack of blood to a portion of the heart. A stroke is brain damage because of lack blood flow to a part of the brain.

Answered 4/8/2013

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Heart attack: A stroke is to the brain what a heart attack is to the heart. You could call a stroke a brain attack. They don't clinically look alike because losing brain tissue causes neurologic symptoms and heart attack causes heart symptoms like pain and shortness of breath.

Answered 4/5/2013

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