Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both women and men in the United States. It is very important to learn about the heart to prevent heart disease. Many forms of heart disease can be prevented and treat with healthy lifestyle choices. For someone who has heart disease or does not; there is information, facts, symptoms, different types, diagnoses, tests, treatment, care, and living and managing that can be given.
Symptoms to heart disease can include chest pain, shortness of breath, pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in your legs or arms, if the blood vessels in those areas are narrow. There are many causes of heart disease. You can just be born with heart defects, or naturally cause them yourself by smoking, excessive use of alcohol, also having high blood pressure, diabetes. Abusing drugs can also cause heart disease too. Stress is a cause of heart disease. Even over the counter medications can cause a heart problem. There is a good amount of test that is used to diagnose heart disease. Blood test, chest x-rays, tilt table test which is use to help find fainting spells, stress test which evolves an evaluation of the hearts response during moderate exercise while a 12-lead ECG is performed, electrocardiograms, heart MRI, holter monitoring is where the heart is recorded while the patient is ambulatory for at least a 24-hour period, echocardiogram, cardiac catheterization, heart biopsy which is where the doctor removes a part of the heart tissue, cardiac computerized tomography (CT) scan helps to visualize the hearts anatomy, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging are all test that is use to see if someone has a form of heart disease. There are treatments to help prevent heart disease. Depending on how bad the form ...
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...m, and also a nuclear heart scan can all be performed. For treatment the women will need to stay in the hospital until the symptoms subside. The women might have to use a balloon heart pump; go through immunosuppressive therapy; and possibly a heart transplant if severe congestive heart failure continues.
In general it is mandatory to do anything for yourself to prevent heart disease. Heart disease is very dangerous and it just doesn’t happen to older women and men but it can happen to middle age a person that doesn’t have a healthy lifestyle. It can also happen in children or pregnant women. Some people can even be born with heart defects that cause them to have a type of heart disease. Heart disease can even be inherited from a parent or grandparent. It’s important that everyone takes care of themselves to prevent heart disease or helps to treat heart disease.
Heart disease is one of the most common causes of the mortality and morbidity in most well developed countries. They come in different forms such as stroke and other cardiovascular diseases and it’s the number one cause of death in the state of America. In the year 2011 alone nearly 787,000 people were killed as a result of this epidemic. And this included Hispanic, Africans, whites and Americans. As for the Asian Americans or pacific Islanders, American Indians and the natives of Alaska, the concept to them was a second only to cancer. However, statistics has proved that a person gets heart attack every 34 seconds and in every 60 seconds, someone dies out of it which include other related event. Additionally, majority of the women are the
...ilure is highly among the older populations and in developing nations. As individuals age, they are more prone to hypertension, atrial fibrillation, CAD, DM, MI and obesity, etc., leading to heart failure. Abnormalities of heart function are higher with increasing decade of life, particularly from age 50 years. Besides, the comorbidities occurs more in developed countries due to the different lifestyles. More people in developing countries are obese, diabetic and living longer, etc. All these issue stress the heart and eventually lead to heart failure (Krum & Abraham, ).
Most people with symptoms related to the function of the heart will have an electrocardiogram (ECG), chest x-ray and echocardiogram (Echo), which allows the structure and function of the heart to be examined.
Signs and symptoms of heart failure include shortness of breath, edema, rapid or irregular heartbeat, weakness, and elevated blood pressure. These signs and symptoms appear slowly in the disease, such as when a person is active, but overtime they will become present when that person is at rest (Couzens, 2014). People at risk for heart failure include those who have sleep apnea, have had a heart attack, have high blood pressure, have diabetes, are overweight, and those abuse alcohol use. There are many other risk factors also; these are just to name few.
Oxygen is vital to a beating, healthy heart because it is needed to perform cellular respiration in order to pump the blood. When there is no oxygen being transported to the heart, the heart cannot pump blood, and eventually after being inactive, the heart tissue dies . This results in a heart attack. Heart attacks can be diagnosed before it is too late. One method of diagnosis is through a blood test. Blood tests are capable of sorting through the material found in blood, and if heart cell contents are found in the specimen, a heart attack can be diagnosed. If the levels of the cell contents are higher, this signifies that the heart attack is more severe. Another method of diagnosis is an electrocardiogram (ECG). An ECG measures the rhythm of the heart in order to detect defects. There are many other strategies that are used by doctors in order to diagnose a heart attack, such as chest x-rays, stress tests, tilt table tests, and echocardiograms, to name a few. A myocardial biopsy involves looking at the heart cells, and is accomplished by collecting a sample of heart cells from the patient. If the results are positive, a heart attack is diagnosed. A heart MRI involves looking at images of the heart in order to detect heart failure. The doctor uses the images to look for disorders in the structure of the
Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Diseases under the heart disease umbrella include blood vessel diseases, heart rhythm problems, and heart defects. The major cause of this is a build-up of fatty plaques in the arteries. Plaque build-up thickens and stiffens the vessel walls, which can inhibit blood flow through the arteries to organs and tissues.
For instance, Drugs that lower cholesterol may help lower elevated of plaque buildup. Having more wholegrain foods, eating less sugar, eating more fruit and vegetables daily are ways to start living up to a healthy life. Another way of lowering your chance is doing physical activities. Most importantly, keeping up with your stress levels and quitting bad substances like smoking are things that also appear to reduce the risk of any type heart disease risk. Following these steps after a heart attack will help prevention and systems. On average, some might see recovery as difficult however, many people live healthy, active lives
Signs and symptoms come along with any disease, some symptoms may be noticeable but sometimes there's just no symptoms at all. The common symptom for Coronary Heart Disease is chest pain and/or discomfort. This happens when the heart is not getting oxygen and blood. How strong the chest pains are varies from patient to patient. The chest pains my feel like the heart is being squeezed. The pain may be felt below the sternum but also in the neck, arms, stomach, and upper back. The chest pain usually occurs when the patient is doing activities or is in motion but it goes away with rest or a medicine called Nitroglycerin. Other symptoms are sho...
Coronary Artery disease is when plaque builds up in the arteries around the heart, which can cause a heart attack. Coronary Artery disease is also one of the leading causes of death of in the United States. Many different medical places are trying to come up with a resolution to this disease, however there are only temporary fixes. The United States is spending a major amount of money to try and find a solution. There are many different symptoms include chest pressure or pain, shortness of breath, pain or discomfort in the arms or shoulder, pain or discomfort in the jaw, neck or back, and feeling weak, light headed, or nauseous. There are several ways to prevent Coronary Artery disease such as not smoking, or to have more exercise in a person lifestyle. Anything healthy a person can do will help prevent Coronary Artery disease, not only will the person feel better but their body will thank them later. Coronary Artery disease is a very serious disease that should be taken very seriously, millions of Americans are affected every year.
Some of the key factors of heart disease are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Half of Americans have one of these three risk factors. Center for Disease Control states that several other medical conditions and lifestyle choices can also put people at a higher risk for heart disease, including; diabetes, overweight and obesity, poor diet, poor physical activity and, excessive alcohol abuse (Americas heart disease burden, 2013). Heart disease is a group of diseases of the heart and the blood vessel system in the heart. Coronary heart disease is the most common type; it affects the blood vessels of the heart. African American women are more likely to die from heart disease than any other race because some say African-American women don’t get the same treatment as the white race will get.
One of the leading causes of death in the United States is heart disease. “Approximately every 29 seconds one American will have a heart attack, and once a minute one American will die from a heart attack” (Ford-Martin and Odle, 915). According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine men over the age of 45 and women over the age of 55 are considered at risk for heart disease. Heart disease is a major cause of death. It is beneficial to individuals who seek to prevent heart disease to recognize the risks leading to heart attacks as they are one of the primary indications of developing heart disease; especially those that fall into the at risk age groups. These risks consist of some that cannot be changed such as heredity risks, or those that can change such as smoking habits. It is very important to know these specific risks for prevention and to understand the symptoms of heart attacks, such as sweating or the feeling of weakness so if these or other symptoms occur people are aware. Finally heart disease treatment is of vital importance if you experience a heart attack so you can learn how to prevent another one from occurring.
In our lives one of the significant things we can do is look after our body and health. Sometimes we tend to ignore of what is going on with our body since we live in a fast pace society. The heart is very important part of human body. It does more than just pumps blood. Not having a healthy heart can most of the time lead to health problems and eventually will decrease the overall condition of the heart. Learning more about the risk of heart disease can help us prevent heart problems from happening and have a healthy lifestyle.
The cause of heart attacks is caused by the death of a segment of heart muscle. The reason this happens is because of the loss of blood supply, blood is lost because of a coronary artery that cuts the flow of blood when it becomes blocked with various substances including cholesterol, and fat . This is where the factor of eating healthy food becomes important. The fat from the food you eat flows through your body, then blocks the arteries and not allowing the flow of blood to the heart, therefore causing the person to experience a heart attack. There are various symptoms a person can experience during a heart attack; because of the variability however it is difficult to know exactly when a person can experience one
...use of death in America, in which all in part due to smoking cigarettes. The best way to keep your heart healthy is to eat well, get lots of exercise, and not smoke cigarettes. Our heart and its many functions all work together as one huge electrical system with h the four heart valves as the command center which leads the blood to support the rest of the body. If it was not for our heart and its important job, we would not be able to breathe or live. It is essential to keep it healthy. Our hearts are so important and I think sometimes, we take that for granted. Our four chambers is our life. The better you take care of it, the better it works. It is a very fascinating process and a very long process but it is important that we keep in mind how vital this fist-sized organ is to our bodies. The four chambers of our heart make up the foundation of our very existence.
By analyzing the medical, cultural and social perspectives we are able to examine leading factors of heart disease as well researching possible devices and medication that can help in dealing with heart disease. All the articles agree that heart disease is a major problem, Morales further found that heart disease is the leading cause of death for both Hispanics and Americans—other cultures are unknown (Morales, Kington, pg. 8). However, the most common heart disease are coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease with coronary heart disease being the leading cause of death in the United States (Kones, pg. 325-326; Stephen, Marmot, pg. 6).