Not every chest pain is heart pain!
However, pain is also the most common sign of heart disease. If the pain occurs with physical activity and goes away with rest, it is most likely related to the coronary arteries. The pain is aching or burning in character and starts in the chest, spreading to the left arm and jaw.
When the arteries supplying the heart narrow, the heart muscle cannot get enough oxygen and signals this with pain. This pain is the first sign of coronary artery disease.
Coronary artery disease begins with damage to the inner surface of the coronary artery and ends with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
After the vessels are damaged, fat particles and other products of cell metabolism begin to accumulate in the damaged area, eventually causing a blockage of the vessel and a heart attack.
Information on this site is general and does not replace an examination by a doctor.