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10 Serious Diseases Doctors Often Get Wrong

Heart attack

What a heart attack feels like can vary, and sometimes people have few if any symptoms at all.

“Older people don’t always have the same symptoms as younger people do, so a young person may have crushing chest pain, and an old person may not feel anything or say I have a little indigestion,” Dr. Graber says.

Women having a heart attack are more likely to be misdiagnosed because they often don’t experience the classic symptom of chest pain, according to a 2014 study.

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