What exactly happens during a heart attack?
It’s Monday morning. The traffic is thick. An overturned tractor-trailer is sprawled across four lanes of the highway, and you’re late for your annual performance review with your boss. Great. As the seconds tick by, the tightness in your chest grows, along with the line of cars getting off at your exit. You jam the window down and gulp in some fresh air, trying to breathe deeply. You feel anxious, light-headed. Is there a giant panda sitting on your chest? You are having a heart attack. Let’s pause right there. Instead of lecturing you about heart health in this article, we’re going to take you inside the body and tell you what happens during a heart attack. What’s happening inside your heart right now isn’t so different from the craziness on the roads. You know that overturned tractor-trailer? You have on
