Entries from February 2008 ↓

By atherosclerosis the inside of the arterial blood vessel are thickened, hardened and stiffened, causing the space for blood flow to be narrowed or closed. This will decrease the oxygen supply to local or distant tissues.

The main symptom of this is pain, poor organ function and bad general condition. The further consequences are tissue damage, occasionally acute damage because by stop of blood flow caused by a sudden blood clot formed in the narrowed areas.

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Hypertensive heart disease is the number one cause of death related with hypertension and is actually a group of ailment that includes heart failure, ischematic heart disease, and hypertensive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Heart failure is when your heart’s pumping capability is weaker than normal. With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body at a slow pace and pressure in the heart increases. As a result, high blood pressure increases the workload of the heart, and eventually, this can cause thickening of your heart muscle and the symptoms of hypertensive heart disease. As your heart continues to pump against elevated pressure in the blood vessels, the left ventricle becomes enlarge, and the amount of blood pumped by the heart each minute goes down. If this condition is not treated symptoms of congestive heart failure like swelling of arms, legs, ankles, feet, and many others, may develop.

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By Matthew Byrd

The scientific research is done to find the connection between stress and heart diseases. The scientists are striving hard to find the answer of the question: is stress the cause of heart disease? Research at the British Heart Foundation published in health magazines say that for few people stress is the contributing cause of the coronary heart disease.

They state that evidences are growing towards depicting that stress contributes to heart related issues. The issue is that nature of stress is such that it cannot be measured so the scientists are unable to state directly that stress causes heart diseases. It seems that scientists need to do more decisive studies to reach the conclusion that how stress causes heart related issues. Continue reading →

You may require a differ greatly benefit than somebody else about the exercise benefit, but several things still the same.

Strong Heart
A strong heart doesn’t have to work so hard so you are less convincing to have a heart attack. Steady exercise also increases your HDL (good) cholesterol and assists lower your total cholesterol. Exercise also assists lower your blood pressure. Your lungs will also benefit from exercise as they get better conditioned so that activities such as climbing stairs won’t make you gasping.

Any exercise tip you use needs to be simple yet smart enough so you can use the exercise tips to quickly and easily adapt your exercise habits to continue to push ahead and reach your health, fitness, and physical appearance goals and still have the time for a great family life. Continue reading →

You might be asking what does diabetes and heart disease have in common besides the fact that they are both serious ailments.

One significant relationship between diabetes and heart disease is that people with diabetes are more likely to get heart disease! I had a life-size question mark stuck on my forehead when I found it out. It is because I had a family history of diabetes, but I was relieved when I had my annual health exams, required by the company I worked with, because I was just fine. Continue reading →

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Heart disease is a general term used to describe different heart conditions which are potentially fatal but can also be treated and prevented.

There are many types of heart disease, some of which are congenital while most of the heart disease in people is develop over the course of time and affect them later in life. Heart disease is often referred to as ‘silent killers’ as they usually develop over time and can go unnoticed for years. Continue reading →