High blood pressure is known as the silent killer because it creeps up without warning and leads to heart disease, stroke, kidney malfunction, blood sugar imbalances and a host of other problems.

Most of us are familiar with the classic symptoms of a heart attack: chest pain, numbness in the left arm, shortness of breath, etc. Sometimes symptoms are strong while other times, they are subtle, resembling heartburn or angina. But what if the heart attack produced no symptoms? A silent heart attack is not only possible, it’s fairly common.