Heart Attacks Risk Factors

The American Heart Association and other medical experts say the body likely will send one or more of these warning signals of a heart attack:

* Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, or Squeezing pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes.
* Pain spreading to the shoulders, neck or arms. The pain may be mild to intense.
* Chest discomfort with light headed ness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.
* Anxiety, nervousness and / or cold, Sweaty skin.
* Paleness or pallor.
* Increased or irregular heart rate.
* Feeling of impending doom.

Heart Attack Risk Factors:

You are male.
Smoke.
Are overweight.
Have high blood pressure.
Have high blood cholesterol.
Your close relatives have suffered heart attacks