Symptoms of Cardiovascular Disease

Heart disease is a difficult disease to detect in its early stages, as it usually produces no symptoms.

Often referred to as a silent killer, heart disease and cardiovascular disease do not produce overt symptoms while in its early stages, although heart disease is a disease that takes many years to develop.

There are however some symptoms that is indicative of the possibility of heart disease and cardiovascular disease, and these symptoms include:

• Chest or arm discomfort during activity
• Unexplained feeling of fatigue
• Shortness of breath
• Feelings of dizziness or nausea
• Abnormal heart beats (palpitations)

In most cases, individuals are alerted to their heart disease through a heart attack or a stroke.

Symptoms of a heart attack include:

• Chest discomfort that lasts longer than a few minutes or comes and goes in succession
• The spreading of pain from the chest to one or both arms, back, jaw, or stomach
• The presence of cold sweats and the feeling of nausea

Some warning signs of a stroke include:

• Sudden numbness, particularly on only one side, of the face, arm, or leg
• Sudden confusion particularly trouble speaking or understanding
• Sudden trouble in seeing either in one or both eyes
• Sudden loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden feeling of dizziness
• Sudden appearance of a severe headache with no known cause