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What is the symptoms of a stroke or heart attack?
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Stroke and heart : Stroke is brain injury -- it means loss of function temporarily or permanently and heart attack is heart injury -- the symptoms include chest pain and shortness of breath.
Answered 4/30/2013
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Brain & chest: Heart attack is damage to heart stroke is damage to brain symptoms of stroke: syncope, facial droop, weakness, numbness. Heart - pain substernal and left arm 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 12/9/2013
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