What is the difference between a stroke and a heart attack?

Question

Which is worse? Please don't cut and past from Web MD ok. I am not a medical student so please give me an easy to understand answer.

Answer 1

Although both are or can be difficult to recover from a heart attack doesn't tend to leave you w/ paralysis or aphasia (inability to speak)  

Answer 2

sorry I'm a medical student so i cant find a more simple way to explain it

Heart attack refers to damage to the muscle of the heart, usually from a lack of blood flow. Most of the time, a blood clot forms in one of the arteries that supplies the heart muscle with blood, blocking the flow of blood. As the heart muscle starves, it begins to die, causing chest pain and other heart attack symptoms.

A stroke is a similar blockage in an artery that supplies blood to the brain. When a clot forms in one of those arteries and stops blood flow, a section of the brain begins to die. Stroke symptoms often don't include any pain or discomfort, and are more likely associated with losing feeling or the ability to move. Much of the time, strokes affect only one side of the body.

These two terms are so often misunderstood that some in the medical community are attempting to do away with stroke and replace it with the term brain attack. Personally, I doubt it will change. Besides how difficult it is to do away with a widely accepted medical term, "brain attack" just sounds like the title of a really bad movie.

Answer 3

A stroke is a brain hemorrhage, in other words a blood clot forms in the brain and eventually bursts causing a whole host of things to happen from loss of feeling to face and body as well as brain damage that can cause speech and or motor function impairment and even death.

A heart attack can happen many different ways but is mainly what it's called, an attack of the heart that stops the heart to different degrees or altogether which also can cause a host of things from not very much heart damage to death and anything in between.

As far as what's the lesser of the two evils so to speak, I'm not to sure that one is "better" to have than another. It's best to try and prevent ether from happening as both are very serious with like consequences.

Answer 4

        In the simplest of terms:

● A stroke is partial brain tissue death as a result of a lack of sufficient oxygen to a part of the brain, while

● a heart attack is partial heart tissue death as a result of a lack of sufficient oxygen to a part of the heart.

● (The same condition for any body organ is generically referred to as necrosis.)

        Note that either condition can be because of extreme narrowing of the inside dimensions of a blood vessel (via buildup of either cholesterol or blood platelets) and/or because of a blood clot floating through the blood vessels and getting "stuck."  Such blood clots most often come from the legs and are a result of pooling of blood in the lower extremities due either to lack of exercise and/or an inability of the heart to effectively push the blood through the system.

        Also, someone said a stroke is a burst blood vessel in the brain.  That is not necessarily true.  Stick with my first answer.

God bless.

Answer 5

see if artery supplying blood to brain is blocked due to cholesterol deposit then its called stroke and if the same thing happens to the heart then its called heart attack .

    u cant say which one is worse both has the same impact depends on the ammount of damage to the organ due to lack of oxygen because of the blockade of either artery.  

Answer 6

A stroke is a blood clot that makes its way to the brain. A heart attack happens when blood flow to a section of heart muscle becomes blocked. If the flow of blood isn’t restored quickly, the section of heart muscle becomes damaged from lack of oxygen and begins to die.