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3. Symptom: Heart-Squeezing Sensation

Other patients with angina describe the pressure as feeling as if a hand is squeezing your heart. As brutal and scary as it sounds, angina is a relatively common condition, affecting around nine million Americans and rising. Unlike cardiac arrest, however, angina causes no permanent damage. The condition presents in two main ways: stable and unstable. Stable angina comes and goes, coming on when your heart is working harder than usual. Unstable angina can appear out of nowhere, even if you're sitting down. This type of angina is the more serious one and raises your risk of heart attack.

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