The risk of a heart attack during a skydiving is the same as it would be during any other high adrenaline experience. If considering skydiving with a heart condition that could lead to a heart attack, consult your doctor to make sure you are physically fit for skydiving and inform the instructors at the drop zone you are going to.
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While it is possible for people with weak hearts to experience heart failure when terrified, it does not happen to generally healthy people.
It is most common that a persons FIRST heart attack is a fatal heart attack! Only a small minority of people who have a heart attack survive to have another, and a very few will have multiple heart attacks before they have a fatal one. As such, it is very important that we make lifestyle choices while we are young that will reduce the lilihood of a heart attack when we are older.
A heart attack is painful and will be noticed, but it will not necessarily be understood. Many people who have heart attacks think that they have had an attack of indigestion, or some other minor illness.
If someone is having a heart attack it is not safe to sedate the. Sedating a person while having a heart attack can cause them to die.
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver not the heart. hepatic refers to the liver while cardia refers to the heart.
People who are less active tend to have higher heart rates than more athletic people. Your heart rate is controlled by electrical impulses controlled by the brain. In some folks the "wiring" needs to be adjusted through medication or ablation therapy. Your doctor can order an EKG and tell you if that is the problem or make recommendations to get your heart beat under control.