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Does Cold Sweat, Nausea And High Blood Pressure Indicate Heart Attack?

my dad said saturday he woke up in a cold sweat and was nausiated. he said he threw up a little. He also said he took his blood pressure at a drug store and the top number was 148 one day and 160 another day. He is on blood pressure medicine. Could he have been having a heart attack?
Mon, 27 Feb 2017
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It's difficult to tell on the basis of symptoms.
Better to tell him to get ECG and ECHO,done.
And till continue BP medications.
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Does Cold Sweat, Nausea And High Blood Pressure Indicate Heart Attack?

It s difficult to tell on the basis of symptoms. Better to tell him to get ECG and ECHO,done. And till continue BP medications.