Revisado por Preeti Parikh, MD | June 3, 2022

“Chest pain” can refer to any physical pain in any organ between your neck and your upper abdomen. It’s easy to associate chest pain with the heart, but it could also be the lungs, ribs, muscles around the ribs, esophagus, or nerves.

Symptoms of a heart attack often include a tight and crushing pain that radiates up to the jaw or down the left arm. However, many people, especially women, have heart attacks that don’t cause chest pain. Learn more about heart attack symptoms in women.

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Escrito por:

Lauren Smith, MA

Lauren Smith, MA, has worked in health journalism since 2017. Before joining GoodRx, she was the senior health editor and writer for HealthiNation.

Revisado por:

Preeti Parikh, MD

Dr. Preeti Parikh is a board-certified practicing pediatrician in New York City. In addition to overseeing all editorial content at HealthiNation, she sees patients at Westside Pediatrics, is an assistant clinical professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson.