Are You Really Having a Heart Attack or Is It Just Heartburn?

Jae Monique
3 min readMar 24, 2022

Heartburn or heart attack? Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common clinical problem affecting approximately one-third of the population in the United States according to the American Gastroenterological Association. It’s also a common cause of non-cardiac chest pain. It’s important to distinguish between heart attack vs heartburn since the management and treatment plans are…

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