Heart beat: Gallstones and heart disease
Heart beat
A gallstone attack, with its knife-like pain suddenly piercing the upper abdomen and lower chest and gradually growing more intense, is one of many things that mimics a heart attack. It turns out there’s another connection between the two: People with heart disease are three times more likely to have gallstones than those free of heart disease.
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