Preventing Heart Disease

Hector Milla asked:


Heart disease, “the disease of the 19th century and beyond”, as some people say. Based on statistics, nearly 13 million people suffer from coronary heart disease in which an approximately 479,000 death toll was recorded each year. Out of 1000 children, 8 of them suffer from congenital heart disease each year in the United States.

This one is a serious problem of the heart and it coordinates the body systems. The disease extends into various related forms each having their own causal elements, symptoms and prevention as well as treatment procedures. There are symptoms and diagnoses that are common among the different kinds of this disease.

Included as common symptoms are: pain in different body parts, nausea, vomiting, sweating, heartburn and swelling of tissues and limbs, chest discomfort, coldness, unexplained headaches, anxiousness and others.

Sometimes, ordinary symptoms do not seem to occur at all, whereas, heart disease can be considered as a silent killer.

Nowadays, people can already avoid this one through education and learning about keeping our hearts healthy. Experts suggest that people should only be occasional eaters with fast foods products and rich foods. Dishes from these venues are best sources of fats and dead calories, which generally, contain fatty acids. Fats that are hydrogenated are mostly unhealthy and in fact, these contribute to heart disease and a lot more unhealthy conditions.

Absolutely without any doubt, smoking has proved to be a major contributor to heart ailments. It is important to cease smoking in spite of how attached you are to cigarettes. It is really not as easy as we say but to do this, one should be seeking the help of family and friends. A therapy could as well help. Moreover, find something to do to divert your attention to indulge the use of your hands except through smoking. Remember, when people usually say that man’s greatest triumph is self-conquest and it’s never too late and too early to make some health changes.

Diagnosis for this disease is frequently alone through a series, a few test involves electrocardiography which gauges electrical activity of a resting individual. Laboratory examinations consist of testing blood, ultra sound, radiological imaging, and nuclear imaging. Insetting esthetes into the blood vessels for accurate examination and diagnosis makes invasive tests.

Prevention of this disease requires discipline in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a strict diet. An individual should be extra focused through careful high amount cholesterol intake, diabetes, and other illnesses. Because of these factors, few heart ailments are triggered.

It is indeed true. There is always a solution for every problem, as heart disease is to heart disease treatment. Illness and its counterparts both exist. The counterpart is the treatment, cure, medication, remedy or whatever you want to call it. Drugs for blood pressure lowering are currently and easily available. However, beware of the side effects though. For people who have been suffering from a severe heart disease should resort to surgery, risky but fair enough. It is risky, since surgeries sometimes fail. This one is a very complex and dangerous illness, in some cases, cannot do anything in fighting it.

Adequate knowledge and awareness of this illness is a fair assurance of prevention. The whole world would surely agree, prevention is really far better than cure.



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toby asked:


hi everyone, please tell me what is the most precise procedure to detect the heart problem??? i have heard of the 2D echo machine used by cardiologists..which is more precise??? my sister is experiencing chest pain?? she has already undergo X-ray, ECG but still her disease didnt detected…until now she is experiencing chest pain.. what is the most effective way/procedures to determine if she has disease or not…

thank you!!!

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Andrew Bicknell asked:


For many people who are suffering from the effects of heart disease making some simple lifestyle changes is all it takes to reverse what can become a deadly condition if left untreated. The sad fact is that many who do suffer this disease fail to take the necessary steps to reverse it effects, which for the most part are relatively easy compared to the complications it can cause. Maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system is key to preventing and/or reversing the effects of heart disease and the way to do that is through healthy lifestyle choices.

There are two changes that everyone with heart disease needs to make if they are to successfully mitigate its potential impact: a healthy diet and an exercise program.

Diet – The health and medical community have been telling people for years that eating a healthy diet is one of the best ways to reverse the effects of heart disease. The first step is to avoid fatty foods, particularly saturated fat. Saturated fat leads to high levels of LDL Cholesterol, known as the bad cholesterol. This type of cholesterol forms plaque in the artery walls which narrows and hardens the arteries. This can cause a blood clot which can block the artery stopping blood flow or it can break free and cause a heart attack or stroke.

The best diet is a low fat diet that includes a good amount of foods high in fiber such as fruits and vegetables. Eat only lean cuts of meat and stick with low fat dairy products to avoid rising cholesterol levels. Even with information such as this the rate of heart disease in the United States remains high because many people simply do not follow this simple dietary advice.

Exercise – Your heart is a muscle and the only way to strengthen it is with exercise. Your heart becomes more efficient and doesn’t have to work as hard when it is strong. The best type of exercise is some form of cardiovascular or aerobic exercise such as walking. In fact walking is a good way to get started as it allows your heart and the rest of your cardiovascular system get used to your body’s new activity level. As you get stronger you can add more strenuous exercises like jogging, biking, swimming and weight lifting, or whatever form of exercise you may enjoy.

There is one other thing you can accomplish if you follow this type of plan. You can lose weight, which is a large risk for heart disease. Not only will your overall health be better but you will feel better about how you look and how you feel.

Reversing the effects of heart disease is relatively easy if you make the effort. Take little steps and before you know it you will be living a healthier lifestyle that will stick with you for the rest of your long life.

Oh, one other thing, if you smoke, stop! It’s that simple!



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Steven A Johnson asked:


Coronary heart disease is often called coronary artery disease. A coronary artery is blood vessels, which are narrow tubes that carry blood to your heart. Your arteries can get built up with plague blocking the flow of blood and oxygen through them. Plague is a fatty substance made from cholesterol. It can happen in ay artery but it is much more serious if it is the coronary artery. Coronary heart disease can lead to very serious health risks such as angina and heart attacks.

If you are overweight or have diabetes you are more at risk of coronary heart disease. High blood pressure and high cholesterol will also put a person more at risk. Men and women can both get coronary heart disease and it can develop as a person gets older. It can also be a heredity disease.

Lowering your blood pressure if you have high blood pressure can reduce your risks of getting coronary heart disease and the same goes for cholesterol levels. Smokers are more at risk as well, nicotine raises blood pressure. After 2 or 3 years of not smoking your risk will be as low as the risk of someone who does not smoke.

Eating a healthy diet will lower the risk of coronary heart disease. Adding foods to your diet that are low in cholesterol and saturated fat will help reduce the risk greatly. Saturated fats are bad because your body turns saturated fats into cholesterol. Getting regular exercise can make your heart stronger. Exercise can also lower blood pressure. Taking an aspirin everyday helps prevent heart disease but there are risks of taking it every day. Ask your doctor if it is the right treatment for you.

Taking a vitamin supplement can lower a person’s risk of having a heart attack. Vitamin E is really good for lower the risk. Alternative Health Supplements offers a product called Super Cardio Program; it combines two important steps for better cardiovascular health. The heart support has Coenzyme Q10, hawthorne extract, citrus bioflavonoid, and vitamin E to support the health of your heart. The artery support has folic acid, cayenne pepper, vitamins B1, B6, B12, and magnesium to maintain healthy blood flow.

Symptoms of coronary heart disease are most of the time very noticeable, but sometimes you can have the disease and not even know it. Chest pain or discomfort is the most common and noticeable of all the symptoms. The pain happens because there is not enough blood and oxygen getting to the heart. The pain will vary from person to person.

Symptoms may be very noticeable, but sometimes you can have the disease and not have any symptoms. There are two types of chest pain atypical and typical. Atypical is often sharp pain and will come and go. You will feel it in the left chest, abdomen, back, and arm. It is more common in women. Typical chest pain feels heavy or like someone is squeezing you. You feel it under the chest bone and the pain occurs with activity or emotion. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, heart attack, and fatigue with activity or feeling over exerted.

Treatments depend on your symptoms and how severe it is. Sometimes treatment can include one or more of the following; medicine, angioplasty, and a stent. By pass surgery could be required if heart attack was the symptom.



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Andrew Bicknell asked:


Many of the risk factors for heart disease are related to lifestyle and environmental factors and are typically labeled uncontrollable (non-modifiable) or controllable (modifiable). These can be conditions, personal traits and lifestyles that contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), which causes coronary artery disease.

The seriousness of this disease can be seen in the fact that over 40% of all people in the United States who suffer a heart attack will die from its affects.

Heart disease, which is a term that includes several more specific heart conditions, is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. The major forms of this most deadly of diseases include acute rheumatic fever, chronic rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, coronary heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, congestive heart failure and any other heart condition or disease.

It is, in simplistic terms, the inability of the heart to pump or receive adequate amounts of blood due to atherosclerosis or damage to the heart caused by infection or congenital defects. In fact heart disease and stroke both have the same risk factors and causes.

An estimated 25% of all Americans have one or more risk factors for heart disease, increasing their risk for heart attack.  Most risk factors are related to lifestyle while other risk factors that cannot be changed include age, gender, and genetics.

Health behaviors associated with a high risk of heart disease include being physically inactive, eating a diet high in salt and saturated fat, and smoking tobacco.  While you can’t control your age, gender, race, or family history, you can decrease your chances of developing heart disease by focusing on the lifestyle changes you can make to improve your overall health.

Leading a healthy lifestyle and following medical advice to reduce or remove risk factors is the best way to reduce the risk of developing heart disease.  Although heart disease takes on different specific forms, there are a common core of risk factors that influence whether someone will ultimately be at risk for heart disease or not.

There are many factors that can increase your risk of getting heart disease.  Some of these factors are out of your control but most of them can be avoided by choosing to live a healthy lifestyle. Excess body fat is one of the greatest risk factors for heart disease.  Cholesterol levels are determined by a combination of age, gender, heredity, and dietary choices, and of these four factors, changing your diet to a healthier one is something you can do something about.  High blood pressure combined with other risk factors such as being physically inactive, eating a diet high in salt and saturated fat, and smoking tobacco greatly increases your chances of getting heart disease as well.  In some cases other factors such as stress and drinking too much alcohol have been linked to cardiovascular disease.

Fortunately, many risk factors for heart disease are caused in part by unhealthy lifestyle habits, which can be altered so as to reduce one’s chances of developing heart disease.



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The Hat asked:


Heart disease runs in our family and it seems like half of my family has a storke or HA by the time they’re 75. Most of them have lived a fairly healthy lifestyle.

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GirlyGirl asked:


If you have heart disease how did you lose weight? It’s hard to exercise, because the heart starts over working (not just fast like a normal heart, but beating a little off rhythm and very hard) and makes it difficult & scary.

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bigbootiewhitegirl asked:


i am doing a seinor reasurch paper on history of heart disease. i dunno how to write one though. any suggestions?

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Susan Dean asked:


Symptoms of heart disease often go undetected because we as a society in general will tend to put up with what we may call heart burn or dizziness or swallen legs and much more without thinking it necessary to go to the doctor. We think these symptoms are nothing and will just go away. And of course they often do go away for a while but then they return. I know from experience with two brothers that they put up with this type of thing for years and years without seeking help until one of them ended up having a major heart attack.

When he was checked out properly at the hospital he was told that he had already had minor attacks but didn’t know it! This also was the case with another brother. So to all you macho men in particular that think nothing will happen to me – get checked out if you have been experiencing any of these symptoms of heart disease. One of my brothers continued ignoring these symptoms and sadly he died of a massive heart attack. This was so unnecessary.

I know many of you may feel that they are just bothering the doctor with minor ailments but really these could be the start to something fatal. It is always better to be cautious than to be ignorant. Even though very healthy active people can have a heart attack it is still more likely to occur in people who are over weight, smoke, are unfit, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and are stressed. This coupled with signs such as chest tightening, dizziness, swollen legs, palpitations, shortening of breath are a major sign of heart problems that definitely should not be ignored. If you are someone like this then you should be taking on some preventative measures before it is too late.

Some of these measures are firstly seeing to your doctor to have some tests done. Seriously consider losing weight by eating healthy at the same time as starting a gentle exercise program that has been approved by your doctor. You must stop smoking!! Just by doing these things you will notice that you will have less symptoms of heart disease to worry about. For the majority of people heart attacks can be prevented or at least delayed substantially if you start looking after your body correctly. It is never too late.

Having a healthy body and mind will also help you to read these symptoms of heart disease much better allowing you to take control of your destiny instead of living as though you were a time bomb ready to go off. Another point to remember is that heart disease does not only affect men but it is highly prevalent in women. So all you women out there take note of what I have just said as it includes you too.



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Eric Timmy asked:


According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the nation’s single leading cause of death for both men and women. At least 58.8 million people in this country suffer from some form of heart disease. Men have a greater risk of heart attack than women do, and they have attacks earlier in life. Even after menopause, when women’s death rate from heart disease increases, it’s not as great as men’s. But the good news is that measures can be taken to prevent heart disease. Studies show that nearly everyone can become more heart healthy by following a few key steps, such as eating a healthy diet, exercising, quitting smoking, and maintaining a healthy body weight.

The American Heart Association has identified several risk factors. Some of them can be modified, treated or controlled, and some can’t. The more risk factors you have, the greater your chance of developing coronary heart disease. Also, the greater the level of each risk factor, the greater the risk. For example, a person with a total cholesterol of 300 mg/dL has a greater risk than someone with a total cholesterol of 245 mg/dL, even though everyone with a total cholesterol greater than 240 is considered high-risk.

Food has a powerful influence on health. What you eat, interacting with other risk factors, substantially determines the development of coronary heart disease. The principal components of food are fat, carbohydrate, protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals. The goals of a heart-healthy diet are to eat foods that help obtain or maintain healthy levels of cholesterol and lipids (fatty molecules) by achieving the following:

ท Reducing overall cholesterol levels and low-density lipoproteins (LDL), which are harmful to the heart.

ท Increasing high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which are beneficial for the heart.

ท Reducing other harmful lipids (fatty molecules), such as tri-glycerides and lipoprotein(a).



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