Friday, 19 July 2013

Heart and Heart Disease

Heart is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. Heart is found all animals with a circulatory system {including all vertebrates }. Human heart though, as all other mammalian hearts, is different from the heart of other animals.
 Heart disease is a broad term use to describe a range of diseases that affect our heart. There are various diseases that fall under the umbrella of heart disease include diseases of our blood vessels, such as coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems; heart infections; and heart defects you're born with.

There are many types of heart diseases. Below is about some more common heart diseases:

(A) Congenital heart disease:

There is a fallacy of thinking that may people when they believe that all heart diseases are brought about by out side factors or that it needs some periods of time for disease to build up. This is, of course, not true as one of the most common types is congenital heart disease.

Congenital heart disease means the heart disease which is passed down through the family, and this is considered as being a congenital type as it principally inevitable. If you have early heart problem in your family then you also are at danger for congenital heart disease.

Although congenital heart disease can be caused by many factors, some of them are actually preventable. If heart problem is clustering in your family, then it may just be because of the way that your family lives, including  unhealthy practices such as poor diet, little or don't have exercise, and smoking. All of these aspects may contribute to heart problem and may create the sequence of congenital heart disease.

(B) Coronary heart disease:

Coronary heart disease, it is the most frequent type of heart problem of all, and is also leading reason of  heart attacks. Coronary heart disease is a term that refers to damage to the heart that happens because its blood supply is decreased, and what happens here is that fatty deposits build up on the linings of  the blood vessels that provide heart muscles with blood, resulting in them narrowing. This narrowing decreased blood supply to the heart muscles and also caused pain that is identified as angina.

There are some factors which are considered as being responsible cause of coronary heart disease. One in particular high cholesterol that may increase fat concentration in your blood and create the building up of fatty  deposits. Another one of the major factors of coronary heart is cigarette and smoking tobacco, as a smoker's risk of getting heart problem is two times that of a nonsmoker, and studies have actually revealed that after 5 years of quitting smoking, the risk of creating is the same as that of someone who had never smoked in their life.

(C) Congestive heart failure: 

When the heart can not pump adequate blood to the other organs in the body that time it is called congestive heart failure. Congestive heart failure can be often result from heart problem and constricted arteries. Congestive heart failure results in a heart which work a lot less efficiently than it should and can further problem. Symptoms regularly consist of swelling and edema, shortness of breath, and kidney problems which in turn can lead to mysterious weight gain. Even elevated blood pressure and alcohol abuse can lead to congestive heart failure.

The patients of congestive heart failure may be examined for congestive heart failure if they have suffered from heart problem in the past, are alcoholic, have a family history of heart problem or show one or all of the symptoms that are caused by congestive heart failure. There are choices of examinations that  aid a doctor in diagnosing this heart crisis. Treatment should begin without delay, starting with changes to diet and exercise,   as patient should abolish salt from diet altogether and sternly limit their fluid intake. Further treatment should be taken by a good professional doctor.

(D) Rheumatic heart disease: 

Rheumatic heart disease frequently derives from strep throat  infections. This may be a reason for many because strep throat, while often preventable, is a quit common condition that affects many people who don't treat a minor sore throat infection in time. However there can't be any reason or cause because rheumatic heart disease that comes from strep throat is fairly rare. The cause of rheumatic heart disease has decreased considerably since 1960 .


If rheumatic fever, which usually happens due to chronic strep throat, is contracted and leads to rheumatic heart disease, the situation can be treated in a way that is much easier than the common treatments for other types of heart problems. This treatment usually involves taking cortisteroid  anti-inflammatory medication to reverse any possible cardiac problems the fever might make. This doesn't rule out the risk for the requirement for more advanced treatment such as surgery, but it does signify the probability for a simple, yet effective treatment.

(E) Pulmonary heart disease:

This is a disease that comes from a lung, or pulmonary, disorder, or a complication of lung problems where blood flow into lung is slowed or even totally blocked, resulting increased pressure on the lung. There are some different symptoms that come with pulmonary heart disease, such as shortness of breath, syncope, dyspnoea and chest pain.

Pulmonary is a state which is often misdiagnosed and has frequently progressed to late stages by the time it is actually correctly diagnosed. At present there are many new treatments which are accessible which have extensively improved the overall prognosis  of this disease.


Heart failure:

Heart failure doesn't mean the heart has stopped working. Rather, heart failure means that the heart's pumping power is weaker than normal. With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body slowly, and pressure in the heart increases. As a result, the heart can't pump enough oxygen and nutrients to meet the body's needs. The chamber of the heart respond by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body  or by becoming more stiff and thickened. It helps  to keep the blood moving for a short while, but in time, the heart muscle walls weaken are unable to pump as strongly. As a result, the kidneys respond by causing the body to retain fluid and sodium. If fluid builds up in the arms, legs, ankles, feet, or other organs, the body  becomes congested , and congestive heart failure is the term used to describe the condition.   


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