Heart attack symptoms can be experienced as a prolonged heavy pressure
or squeezing pain in the center of the chest behind the sternum. The
pain may spread to the shoulder, neck or arm, fourth and fifth fingers
of the left hand, the back, the teeth or the jaw. These symptoms may be
accompanied by nausea and vomiting, sweating and shortness of breath.
Women, however, hardly ever have the classic "pain in the chest
radiating to the left arm" as a symptom of heart attack. Women are more
likely to experience pain in the back, at about heart level. And they
may not experience any acute pain at all...only sweating and shortness
of breath.