The silent heart attack is a form of asymptomatic myocardial infarction or, at most, characterized by just mentioned ailments, which often do not suggest a heart disease.
Specified that silent heart attack and classic heart attack share the same pathophysiological mechanism and the same risk factors (physical inactivity, smoking, high fat diet etc.), the fact of feeling or not experiencing symptoms can sometimes be connected to particular states pathological conditions affecting the patient.
An emblematic case of what has just been said is represented by diabetes patients .
In fact, those who suffer from this severe metabolic disease may experience a deterioration of the peripheral and autonomous nervous system, which leads them, over time, to be less and less sensitive to pain.
This reduced sensitivity, therefore, means that the classic symptoms caused by a heart attack (chest pain, discomfort in the arm or neck, etc.) go completely unnoticed and that the diabetic does not realize what is really happening to him.
