Hello Family and Friends, We are in the midst of Heart Health Awareness Month. The heart is undoubtedly one of the most important organs in your body. If your heart fails to work, your entire body will be deprived of oxygen and nutrients, which is incompatible with life. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in most racial groups. In 2020, approximately 697,000 Americans died from heart disease, equating to almost 2,000 deaths per day. To break it down even further, one in
4.1) HEALTH PROBLEMS: 4.1.1) Heart Diseases The cause of the heart diseases can came from many factors. Sometimes the danger factor is family history. Those with parents or close relatives with heart disease are more likely to develop it themselves. Based in experiment of scientist, women do have a lowest risk of heart attack than 5 from 6 Men, and they have attacks earlier in life. Even after menopause, the rate of men’s death from heart disease is the highest than women’s even it increase every
Inherited Heart Disease According to the Center for Disease Control, “ Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.” Many people have a family history that affects the progression of their disease. This disease is hereditary, meaning that it can pass from parent to child. Many things can affect a person 's risk for developing heart disease, and genetics is only one of them. However, it 's a very serious risk factor, and impacts the lives of many.There are several kinds of
furthermore it accounts for about 30% of all forms of congenital heart disease (5). It has been stated that there is a possibility that a history of family respiratory disease could be the possible connection between chronic airway diseases such as asthma and genital heart diseases; ventricular septal defects. The latter two diseases can be contracted by a prenatal individual in a multitude of ways including
Congenital heart disease is a problem with the structure of the heart. It is present at birth. Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect. The defects can involve the walls of the heart, the valves of the heart, and the arteries and the veins near the heart. They can disrupt the normal flow of blood through the heart. The blood flow can slow down, go in the wrong direction or to the wrong place, or be blocked completely. The sign and symptoms of severe defects in newborns
According to the National Heart, Lungs, and Blood Institute, heart disease is the disorder of the blood vessels in the heart that can eventually cause a heart attack. In the United States, heart disease is the number one cause of death. For women, every 1 in 3 patients with heart disease die. If you feel tightness or any pain in your chest, it may be a sign for a heart attack or blocked artery. Also, when you suddenly feel dizzy, any nausea, and pain that spreads to the arm, or throat or jaw pain
Cardiovascular Disease: Heart Attack There are many disease in the medical world which we cannot begin to understand but there are also many diseases we do understand. These diseases include many cardiovascular diseases and one of them is a heart attack. The dangers and results of this horrific disease affect the lives of people all around the globe but primarily here at home in America. I am going to discuss the effects this disease has on many Americans each and every day. A myocardial infarction
Coronary heart disease is when plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. The heart is a muscular pump located in the mediastinum that keeps blood flowing through the vessels. Coronary heart disease can develop because of hereditary or old age. Another way it develops is because of obesity, smoking, lack of exercise, anxiety, stress, and aggression. The pulmonary and systemic circuits carry blood to the organs in the body. The pulmonary circuit is on the right half of the heart. The pulmonary
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in Australia and also the world, it affects 1.4 million Australians a year. In 2013 13% of all deaths were caused by coronary heart disease. In 2012 7.4 million people died as a result of heart disease. Heart disease is the build up of plaque (fat deposit on the inner walls of the arteries) in the coronary arteries that supply O2 rich blood to the heart muscle, the build up of plaque is called atherosclerosis. Over time passes plaques may harden
Home Health and Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease (CHD) has many names. It is sometimes called atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, hardening of the arteries, or simply heart disease. Regardless of its name, coronary heart disease occurs when plaque builds up in the coronary arteries causing them to narrow and harden. The narrow and hardened arteries make it much more difficult for the heart to pump blood through them. Complicating issues, when blood does not move quickly, it can
1. After taking the heart disease risk assessment, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my assessed risk was “very much below average”. I have always thought of my lifestyle as above average in terms of health, and was glad to have this assessment reaffirm that. The only two improvements suggested were to eat more fish and more vegetable oil (which surprised, because I had thought that oils were to be avoided if possible). For the diabetes risk assessment, my assessment results were the same,
Heart valve disease refers to the condition wherein one or more of the heart’s valves suffers from a dysfunction. These valves include the four valves of the heart which are known as the tricuspid valve, the pulmonary valve, the mitral valve, and the aortic valve. The heart’s valves are essential in the process of blood flow to and from the heart and a problem of any of these valves may cause a problem in the circulation of blood throughout the body. What are the types of heart valve disease?
Socioeconomic Status Related To Heart Disease The heart is the hardest working muscle in the body, pumping approximately two ounces every day for a lifetime. To keep this small but efficient muscle working, one must understand the importance of heart health. Unfortunately this lack of understanding causes millions of Americans to suffer from heart disease. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) “Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most ethnicities in the United
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death worldwide since 1950s. In Malaysia, CHD is the number one cause of death which contributes 22.18% of deaths annually according to statistics from World Life Expectancy. CHD is the leading cause of death in United States for men and women. The statistics of The Heart Foundation have shown that every 33 seconds, someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease. For many years, CHD has been the leading cause of death globally. It
Today, I will share to you the Ischemia Heart Disease. The Ischemia Heart Disease has been one of the most deadliest disease known for almost 2 decades (20 years). This disease can kill anyone in just one heart stroke. The main idea of this disease is that you get a heart attack due to the fact when plenty of your veins start to fill up of plaque and blood or as known as a blood clot, you get a heart attack. The blood flow and oxygen flow is incorrect or in simple words, the current of blood stops
Coronary heart disease starts to develop at a young age when plaque can start to develop in the blood vesicles walls. As your get older, the plaque builds up, inflaming the blood vesicle walls, making your arteries more prone to blood clots and giving you a higher risk for a heart attack. Soon enough, the plaque starts to release chemicals for healing but ends up making the artery sticky, resulting in things like calcium sticking to your blood vesicle walls. The heart then tries to compromise by
INTRODUCTION Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is a structural abnormality of heart that presents at birth with high fatality rate. The incidence of CHD ranges between 8 and 10 per 1000 live births. In Indonesia, it is estimated that 40,000 babies are affected with CHD.1 However, the development of the diagnostic tool, medication, non-surgical and surgical intervention in the last 40 years have increased the life-expectancy of neonates with CHD in critical condition.2 Mitchell et al (1971) define
FOODS TO CHOOSE WHEN YOU HAVE HEART DISEASE Heart disease generally termed as Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a kind of disorder that affects the functioning of heart. The CVD occurs due to blockage in the blood vessels that resist the flow of nutrition and oxygen into the body which results in sudden heart attacks. The heart diseases are classified into multiple types as cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, heart arrhytmias, rheumatic heart disease and congenital heart infections. Risk factors such
As we all know that the heart allows blood flow within the human body. But with having a heart comes with its diseases just like any other organ we have in our body. Heart disease is also know as CVD (cardiovascular disease)or CHD (Coronary heart disease).It is diseased vessels ,structural problems and blood clots. About 600,000 die from heart disease every year (1 in every 4 deaths) . At least 47% of people have a least 1 of the 3 major risk factors, diabetes, smoking , not active, ect... It is
The heart is one of the most important organs in the body, but unfortunately heart disease can weaken the cardiovascular system which could lead to fatal effects on this vital organ. The heart is the strongest organ in the body, pumping blood 70 times a minute (Avoiding Heart Attacks and Strokes), so if it becomes damaged, consequently the whole body becomes damaged (Allen 34). More than 60 million Americans suffer from some sort of cardiovascular disease (“Heart Disease”). Heart disease and heart