Basically what our doctor friend is saying is that nerves that supply autonomics (nerves that you don’t control like the ones that tell you to breath or the nerves that send messages to your heart to speed up) to our heart share a common innervation with the nerves that supply autonomics to our stomach. The shared innervation is from the 5th level of our Thoracic spine (T5). This is considered a viscero-viscerel reflex (in other words one organs nerves are affecting another organ).
miakaya
October 6th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Nausea is not a “Classic or most common warning signs of heart attack”.
but Women may experience this less common warning signs of heart attack.
Compared with women, men were significantly more likely to report diaphoresis (profuse perspiration) and significantly less likely to complain of nausea as well as neck, back, or jaw pain.
A recent study, carried out in over 10,000 adults presenting to the emergency departments of 10 hospitals throughout the United States with symptoms suggestive of AMI, found that women were more likely to present with nausea or vomiting, shortness of breath, and clinical findings consistent with heart failure, rather than heart attack.
To understand the mechanism, the physiological aspect of heart attack is related to autonomic nervous system which intiates nauseated symptom.
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Dr_n_ur_
October 6th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Basically what our doctor friend is saying is that nerves that supply autonomics (nerves that you don’t control like the ones that tell you to breath or the nerves that send messages to your heart to speed up) to our heart share a common innervation with the nerves that supply autonomics to our stomach. The shared innervation is from the 5th level of our Thoracic spine (T5). This is considered a viscero-viscerel reflex (in other words one organs nerves are affecting another organ).
miakaya
October 6th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Nausea is not a “Classic or most common warning signs of heart attack”.
but Women may experience this less common warning signs of heart attack.
Compared with women, men were significantly more likely to report diaphoresis (profuse perspiration) and significantly less likely to complain of nausea as well as neck, back, or jaw pain.
A recent study, carried out in over 10,000 adults presenting to the emergency departments of 10 hospitals throughout the United States with symptoms suggestive of AMI, found that women were more likely to present with nausea or vomiting, shortness of breath, and clinical findings consistent with heart failure, rather than heart attack.
To understand the mechanism, the physiological aspect of heart attack is related to autonomic nervous system which intiates nauseated symptom.