This pain can present with the typical specific symptoms, which are easy to recognise or vague symptoms like chills, nausea, dizziness, belching and mild chest pain.
The report stated: “Belching associated with chest pain or indigestion is a recognised symptom of myocardial ischaemia or infarction in the emergency room literature.”
Evidence supporting these links comes mainly from questionnaire studies, however, with no randomised trials yet supporting the association.
The studies, however, suggest belching is a symptom of myocardial ischaemia or infarction (heart attack) in a “significant number of patients”.