Do not follow Hollywood movies on how people get heart attacks, researchers have warned, saying that the portrayals of someone clutching their chest and collapsing dramatically are misleading and shouldn’t be expected.

Ann Eckhardt, a nursing professor and researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington in the US said that ‘The Hollywood Heart Attack’, unfortunately, is not real life.

“It’s not always intense. Sometimes it’s just discomfort that doesn’t feel quite right, so people tend to wait to see a doctor. The longer you wait, the more likely you are to have negative consequences after your heart attack,” Eckhardt said in an article published in the journal Heart & Lung.