Does heart attack mean you have heart disease?

Elvin Weichbrodt: No, you can have a heart without having heart disease. Electrocution, drug use, congenital heart defects and there has even been cases when someone has been struck in the chest area (such as being tackled in football) that has caused a heart attack. A heart attack can occur when one or more of your coronary arteries become blocked. Over time, a coronary artery can narrow from the buildup of various substances, including cholesterol (atherosclerosis). This condition, known as coronary artery disease, causes most heart attacks.During a heart attack, one of these plaques can rupture and spill cholesterol and other substances into the bloodstream. A blood clot forms at the site of the rupture. If large enough, the clot can completely block the flow of blood through the coronary artery.Another cause of a heart attack is a spasm of a coronary artery that shuts down blood flow to part of the heart muscle. Use of tobacco and of illicit drugs, such as cocaine, ca! n cause a life-threatening spasm. A heart attack can also occur due to a tear in the heart artery (spontaneous coronary artery dissection)....Show more

Mee Blumenfeld: What Does Heart Attack Mean

Avis Brantner: 1

Sammie Bocanegra: yES a heart attack mean you have a heart disease and YES heart disease develop gradually

Monroe Rainey: no

Kris Otuafi: Usually heart disease develops gradually without symptoms. Without symptoms no one but a few study subjects find out. No one knows how long the process happened before there were symptoms. Bodies are very good at adjusting to compensate for minor damage.Heart attacks can have sudden causes, but usually don't. Usually they just look sudden because there were no symptoms before that....Show more

Tosha Tawney: Depends on the cause of the heart attack and the degree of damage your heart suffered.