Difference between a heart attack, cardiac arrest, and stroke?

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Difference between a heart attack, cardiac arrest, and stroke?

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An _Infarction_ is when there’s an obstacle (a clot, a hemorrhage or other things) preventing blood from carrying oxygen to a tissue, leading to cell death. It can happen anywhere in the body, but when it happens to the heart, the heart stops and you get a myocardial infarction also known as a heart attack. If it happens to the brain, part of the brain dies and that’s what a stroke is.

Cardiac arrest is just the generic term for when the heart stops, it could be due to a myocardial infarction but also a thousand other things.