Silent medical Killers 2: Damn, this chest pain...
CHEST PAIN can occur in several diseases including chest infection, peptic ulcer disease, gastro-esophageal reflux disease etc
Lets look at one of the sinister causes
Myocardial Infarction (MI) aka HEART ATTACK
This occurs as a result of the 'death' of a part of the heart muscle due to an interruption in its blood supply following a host of diseases eg high cholesterol level.
Now what do you want to check to ascertain if this chest pain is life threatening
was it sudden in onset?
is it central and crushing?
do you also feel it at your arms and neck?
If yes to any of these, my advice is take this pain more seriously and see a doctor asap.
follow up for more silent medical killers, we are going gynaecological next time. CHEERS
Nice one. Regular checkup is key, but most, in this part of the climes hates doing that for a variety of reasons.
true, but we cannot over emphasize the fact
this series is meant to jerk us into reality
You right. Let's create this awareness, enough of young people in their prime, including sports men and women dropping dead like flies!
Nice one doc. But Ave always thought that this ailment happens only to elderly people
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