{"id":228128,"date":"2025-12-31T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/symptoms-of-a-heart-attack-may-emerge-weeks-beforehand-what-to-know"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:07:21","slug":"symptoms-of-a-heart-attack-may-emerge-weeks-beforehand-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/symptoms-of-a-heart-attack-may-emerge-weeks-beforehand-what-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Symptoms of a heart attack may emerge weeks beforehand: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/symptoms-of-a-heart-attack-may-emerge-weeks-beforehand-what-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A heart attack is a medical emergency that requires an immediate call to the emergency services. However, there are sometimes warning signs that can show up weeks in advance that should prompt you to visit your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, what exactly happens during a heart attack? A heart attack occurs when the vessels that supply the heart itself with oxygen and nutrients\u2014known as coronary arteries\u2014become blocked. One cause is <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-01-heart-cardiologists-condition-death-nba.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">calcium deposits<\/a> building up in them, says the German Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>As this is a gradual process, symptoms often appear before the blockage occurs, when the vessels are already narrowed in what is referred to as coronary heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heart attack is a medical emergency that requires an immediate call to the emergency services. However, there are sometimes warning signs that can show up weeks in advance that should prompt you to visit your doctor. Firstly, what exactly happens during a heart attack? A heart attack occurs when the vessels that supply the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}