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Can you please tell me how heart attack and cerebral attack differ?
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Heart/brain: Heart attack - heart muscle dies or is temporarily injured (mi, acute coronary syndrome) cerebral attack - brain tissues dies or is temporarily injured (stroke, tia).
Answered 8/1/2013
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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 12/10/2013
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