Medications That Raise Potassium Levels Spike Heart Attack Risk
READ THIS NEXT: This Is the No. 1 Heart Attack Symptom People Ignore, Doctors Say. Heart attacks are far from uncommon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), someone experiences this potentially deadly event every 40 seconds in the U.S. The agency says this adds up to roughly 805,000 people having a heart attack every year. As it turns out, you can even have a heart attack without realizing it, as the CDC warns that about 1 in 5 heart attacks are silent....