India, Sept. 11 -- You know the movie scene - chest grab, gasp, collapse. In the real world, a heart attack is rarely that cinematic. Sometimes it just feels like acidity, getting tired too quickly at the gym, or exhaustion that you try to sleep off. Also read | Can you die from a broken heart? Cardiovascular surgeon says 'yes', explains why heartbreak can mimic a heart attack

That gap between what we see on screen and what actually happens is what worries heart doctors the most. According to Dr Nishant Tyagi, director of interventional cardiology at Medanta Noida, the human body usually gives off warning signals long before a cardiac event turns critical.

The problem isn't that the body stays silent; it's that we are expert excuse-make...