Heart Attack Symptoms : Heart Disease Factors

Common heart disease risk factors are age, excess body fat and high blood pressure. Find out more about common heart attack risks factors with expert tips from a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) in this free video on heart disease.

Expert: Michael Herbert
Bio: Michael Herbert is a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) with New Hanover County in Wilmington, NC.
Filmmaker: Reggie Hayes

Duration : 0:1:33


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#1 OurJourneyOnEarth on 01.29.10 at 1:58 pm

Anybody who has an …
Anybody who has an accident and goes into shock can degenerate into cardiac arrest. Healthy young individuals who go into shock for various and sundry reasons can go into cardiac arrest: Psyhchogenic shock, hypovolemic shock, hypoglycemic shock, Hypothermia, electrolyte imbalance, blood gases not in proper ratio…so and and so.