You can have heart disease with no symptoms. And for Black folks, knowing your body’s warning signs can be life-saving.

If you have chest pain on the left side, your first thought may be that you’re having a heart attack. While chest pain can be a symptom of heart problems, that’s not always the case.

The staging system for heart attacks describes the extent of tissue damage to the heart. Stage 1 heart attacks do not cause any death of the heart tissue, while stage 4 causes severe damage.