Having chest pain frequently. Is it a heart attack?

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From your history, it seems that your father has angina pectoris. Angina pectoris is not a heart attack, but it is a chest pain that occurs while exerting such as walking at a high pace, climbing stairs, during emotional stress and relieved by rest or taking tablet Nitroglycerine under the tongue. If this pain occurs more and more frequently or with less exertion or at rest, then there is something to be worried. I do not know about the workups done for your father such as ECG (electrocardiogram), echocardiography, stress ECG, and angiography. I do not know about the medications taken by your father for BP, and diabetes. Please give a detailed history about it. If you send me the reports, I can guide you further. If your father is having chest pain on rest or despite taking maximum medicines, I advise your father to go for coronary angiography and angioplasty. He has to reduce intake of salt to less than one teaspoon in a 24-hour diet. He should stop taking fatty meals, junk foods, and beef. He has to quit smoking if he has the habit.