Video: Heart Attack Signs in Diabetics

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Diabetics may not feel chest pain, which is a classic sign of a heart attack. Discover how to recognize heart attacks in diabetics with expert tips from a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) in this free video on heart disease.

Video Transcript

Non-classical heart attack patients. In typical in the medical field, if you have to evaluate a woman, especially one that suffers from diabetes, and she has some of the associated symptoms of a heart attack, it it increases your suspicion. These patients often do not have the classical signs of crushing chest pain, maybe because of a higher threshold in pain that these patient have, or the diabetics often suffer a neuropathy, or a loss of sensation in feelings in where they're going to be able to detect the pain that's often is caused by having a heart attack. This usually occurs because the high levels of blood sugar causes damage to the distal nerve endings and capillaries, often where the body first detects that a problem occurs, as in the heart muscles that die from a heart attack.

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Heart Attack Signs in Diabetics

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