Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease is also known as heart attack, is a very common disease in the world, especially in the United States. As a fact, cardiovascular disease killed about 17 million people in the world every year. Most of them are caused by heart attacks and strokes.

Cardiovascular disease can be caused by tobacco consumption and also smoking, it is also raises the risk of strokes. Another thing that can cause it is physical inactivity and also bad or unhealthy diet, this will lead too, which is a very important risk factors that will augment a person risks to cardiovascular disease.

A heart attack can happen when there is a blood clot. The blood will stream to a part of the heart and it will be blocked by a blood clot. When this happen, this clot will entirely shut down the blood flow, and this will cause the part of the heart muscle supplied by that artery to begin to die. In most cases, a lot of people survive a heart attack for the first time and starting to live the way they were leaving before and they will enjoy a lot more years of creative activity. But, the thing is that, that does not mean that the way they were living was good, that does not mean that they cannot have another one.

By having a heart attack for the first time really mean something, it is a sign that telling someone that their diet or the way he or she was living was not actually the best way. It means that that person needs and has to make some changes. That person needs to go see a doctor, and the doctor will give that person advice of medications and also a change in the way they live. But, it all depends on how bad that person’s heart was injured and also the degree of heart disease that caused the heart attack.

Also, there exists two types of stro...

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...ily aspirin therapy; or it can be cholesterol-lowering medications, for example statins or fibrates.

Finally, the last thing that can be done if the first two are not working is medical procedure or surgery so the doctor can clear the blockage in the heart. One of the process that they usually use is a process called coronary angioplasty. What they do is that they will put a catheter in one of the artery in the patient’s arm or groin and they will strand a small balloon to the patient’s blocked artery and finally, they will inflate it so the artery can open again.

Sometimes, when the condition is bad, a more invasive process called coronary artery bypass surgery may take place. In this process, they will take a vein from another part of the patient’s body, which most of the time the patient’s leg. It is used to get around the blocked part to the artery.