During the holidays, the risk of heart is increased heart attacks. Because of the Stress around Christmas can trigger a heart attack, warns the German heart Foundation.
However, victims and their families afraid, often, to the holidays to choose the emergency call.
The Hesitation, however, can be life threatening, warns the Foundation. Instead, she advises to choose in the case of suspected heart attack the speed with which the 112 and to describe the Problem on the phone significantly.
“Hesitate patients with heart attack or acute chest pain to the emergency call 112, you are risking your life: The heart attack may at any time devolve into ventricular fibrillation and the Patient’s heirs in a few minutes on sudden cardiac death of a lapse,” warns cardiologist Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Voigtländer, Vice Chairman of the Board of the German heart Foundation.
Signs of a heart attack, severe chest pain that last longer than five minutes, according to the heart Foundation. This outbreak, Nausea and shortness of breath are often sweat.
Particularly vulnerable are people over 75. Other risk factors for stress-related heart attacks are Diabetes also, for example, or heart disease.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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