Heart attack

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myocardial infarction

Facts

• A heart attack is a life-threatening event.
• The best time to treat a heart attack is within one to two hours of the first onset of symptoms.
• A heart attack is simply the most extreme state of oxygen deprivation, in which whole regions of heart muscle cells begin to die for lack of oxygen.
• Heart attack is caused by sudden loss of blood and oxygen to your heart.

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