Category Archives: Coronary Heart Disease

Jun 15

Improving Heart Attack Risk

A heart attack is known as a myocardial infarction. This occurs when the heart muscle is damaged or does not receive enough oxygen. Many cardiac related problems occur due to blockages in arteries that carry purified blood away from the heart to different parts of the body. Another cause is the formation of blood clots.

Very often, it is quite difficult to differentiate between a heart attack and heartburn. The common signs of a heart attack are a tightness, pain, or discomfort in the chest. Sweating, nausea, and vomiting that are accompanied by intense pressure in the chest. A radiating and intense pain in the chest that extends from the chest to the left arm. A shortness of breath for more than a few minutes.  If you have any of the above you must consult the doctor or go to the emergency rooms.

If you even think you are having a heart attack you must call for a cardiac care ambulance, and put under your tongue a sorbitrate or chew an aspirin. If you are allergic to aspirin don’t take one. At the hospital care will include rapid thrombolysis, cardiac catheterization, and angioplasty. They will also administer intravenously clot busting medications.

The risk factors for a heart attack include: smoking, diabetes, high levels of cholesterol, hypertension, family history of heart diseases, atherosclerosis, lack of exercise, obesity, and fast foods.

Reduce the risks of a heart attack and improve heart health by:

1. Quitting smoking.

2. Eating healthy. Avoid fatty foods, excess salt, and red meats.

3. Controlling high blood pressure and diabetes.

4. Ensuring regular exercise at least 30 minutes a day. Walking is most beneficial.

5. Preventing obesity. Doing all you can to maintain weight.

6. Choosing to live a healthy lifestyle.

7. Practicing meditation.

8. Doing regular relaxation and breathing exercises.

9. Undergoing periodic cardiac evaluations.

10. Including foods that are rich in anti-oxidants in your diet.

A killer disease, according to the American Heart Association approximately 58.8 million people in the US suffer from heart diseases. And, about 950,000 Americans die of heart ailments each year. Heart diseases and death from it can be prevented by maintaining your health. Find a balance in life between work and other activities, abandon the couch for the outdoors, don’t watch sports on television play sports instead and you can hope to live a long and fulfilled life.

Be a well informed and caring citizen, read all about heart diseases and preventive care. The norm prevention is better than cure could lead a whole nation towards good health and well being.

Feb 5

Symptoms of Heart Disease – An Introduction

People often associate chest pain they experienced with the disorder of the heart, so often create panic sufferer. In fact, not all chest pain is one symptom of a heart attack. Therefore, it is important you understand and recognize first about chest pain and its causes.

Heart disease is one disease that resulted in the highest mortality. This time, we will try talk about heart disease involving organs such as coronary heart disease, diseases of the heart valves, congenital heart disease, heart failure, disease of heart muscle damage, diseases of heart rhythm disorders and other diseases.

Symptoms of heart disease also vary, but most common is chest pain, tightness, pounding (palpitations), rapid fatigue when activity, and suddenly fainted. All of these symptoms depending on heart disease suffered by the patient.
Symptoms of chest pain, most often occurs in patients with coronary heart disease are due to coronary heart disease (blood vessels that feed the heart muscle) which lead to the heart muscle of oxygen and nutrient deficient foods.

Another cause of chest pain caused by heart disease such as narrowing of the aortic valve (the main blood vessels that supply blood from the heart throughout the body) and the presence of aneurysm (widening and thinning of blood vessel walls).

Next article will discuss about coronary heart disease.

Feb 3

Character Know Chest Pain and Handle with Appropriate and Immediate

Often, patients at a hospital in fear when experiencing chest pain. They think that it is a symptom of heart disease or serious illness shoes. Actually, to decide the cause of chest pain, it needs proper diagnosis, where it depends on a thorough physical examination, special examination and history taking of the nature of chest pain on the location, distribution, duration of pain and trigger factors that can cause chest pain.

Source Chest Pain

Pain that you experience can be caused by almost every structure in the chest. Different organs can produce the types of pain that is different but unfortunately the pain is not specific to any cause. Source of pain may arise from the following organs:

  • Chest wall including ribs, muscles, and skin
  • Backs including the spine (spine), nerves, and back muscles
  • Lung, pleura (lining of the lung) or trachea
  • Heart including the pericardium (sac surrounding the heart)
  • Aorta
  • Esophagus
  • Diaphragm, a flat muscle that separates the chest cavity and abdominal cavity-
  • Pain in the skin such as herpes.

According to a study in America, described the main cause of chest pain more due to the disruption of the stomach (42%), the second cause is pain in coronary heart disease (31%). There is also the name pericardium pain / infection in the lining of the heart. Next, because of problems in the lung (8-10%).

Sometimes, it is not easy to distinguish them from other causes, especially in patients with diabetes mellitus and female patients who are often symptoms are not typical. But there are some clues that can be used to differentiate other than the typical symptoms that have been mentioned. For example, chest pain caused by problems in the lungs is usually accompanied by symptoms of cough or influenced by the movement of breath, chest pain caused by muscle and bone are usually influenced by the movement or change in position, chest pain caused by injury or gastrointestinal disturbances, usually to a location more heartburn, chest pain that is felt more like burning in the chest, and is influenced by food. For more information, you can consult with a physician.