A sign of myocardial infarction are not paying attention

British physician Alka Patel, a specialist in internal medicine, announced that tooth pain may indicate the imminence of a myocardial infarction.

The Express website notes that, according to the doctor, this pain (tooth pain) should interest people who have never experienced pain and dental problems.

“This is linked to the location of the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain to the heart through the jaw,” she says.

And myocardial infarction, a serious condition, caused by an acute shortage of blood supply to the heart muscle, due to blockage of a blood vessel with a thrombus or spasm, usually occurring in the area of ​​hardening of the artery supplying the heart as a result of the accumulation of plaques, with lack of ischemia and necrosis of part of this muscle.

Source: Novosti