Heart Attack Symptoms
What are the signs of a heart attack? Do you know them? Suppose one of your colleagues at work began to experience one or more of the signs. Suppose a spouse or other loved one showed 3 signs of a heart attack. Suppose you began to have heart attack symptoms. What are the signs of a heart attack? It is important to know them, and to know what to do when you see or feel them. Signs of Heart Attack Heart attacks sometimes happen suddenly and dramatically. In such cases, both the victim and those around know exactly what is happening. Most heart ...
Heart Disease in Women
Heart disease is heart disease, right? Does it really matter whether you are a man or a woman? Yes, it matters. Coronary heart disease in women can manifest itself in significantly different ways from what it does in men. Women need to know those differences. Risk Factors for Heart Disease in Women * Age 65 or above - the effects of menopause add to the old age risk. Heart attacks as a result of heart disease in women are likely to happen at an older age than in men. * Diabetes - Women develop diabetes risk factors earlier than do men, and heart disease ...
Bypass Surgery – What It Is
Define bypass surgery. That's what you will probably say if your doctor recommends the procedure. What is heart bypass surgery? You may have heard of it, in a general way, but how would you define it? Define Bypass Surgery in Construction Terms You can define bypass surgery by comparing it to a highway construction project. Suppose a landslide closes a 4-lane highway. The blockage is 90-100% complete. Traffic can no longer flow into a major city on that route. It still flows on other routes, but they are slowed by the additional burden. Resources have difficulty entering the city, and deliveries leaving ...
Heart Surgery – Post-Operative Nutrition
After heart surgery, post-operative nutrition becomes a matter of great concern. Anyone who has undergone open heart surgery for bypass of blocked arteries, valve repair, or other complications can attest that the thought of a repeat performance is repulsive. Full recovery from heart surgery is desired, and patients fresh out of heart surgery are willing to make many sacrifices, including diet. In the first days after heart surgery, post-operative nutrition will be explained to patients by the surgeon. As patients go through recovery in the weeks after heart surgery, post-operative nutrition should be put into place fully, whether the patient is ...
Heart Disease and Marriage
How much do you love your spouse? Do you love him or her enough to help reduce the risks of heart disease? Do you want your spouse to live a long, happy life with you? New Report Authors of a new report (October 2007) from a study done in Great Britain tell us that: "An extensive body of research shows that social relations are associated with better health and reduced risks of cardiovascular disease." The study asked detailed questions about close relationships, focusing particularly on the marriage relationship. It concluded that those who had many arguments and negative interactions with spouses were 1.34 times ...
Heart Disease – Prevention Is Better than Cure
Heart disease prevention is becoming a matter of great concern as increasing numbers are diagnosed with some form of this disease. With stress levels increasing in our fast-paced society, heart disease is rapidly nearer epidemic proportions. This month (April 2007), a reported study showed that workers with high job strain levels have higher blood pressure than workers with less strain. The study was reported in the April issue of the "Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine", official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Heart disease prevention could begin by opting out of every form of employment that ...
Heart Disease and Obesity
Men and women who carry too much weight for their body's frame are at risk for coronary heart disease just because of the excess weight. Many physicians and other medical experts once thought that heart disease and obesity were related only indirectly. They looked at other risk factors, and related them to the person's degree of obesity. Heart disease and obesity are proving, however, to be more directly linked than they thought. No Missing Link In recent years, a growing number of studies have indicated that while obesity can have its effect on other risk factors, heart disease and obesity themselves are directly ...
Heart Disease Prevention Tips
Heart disease. It seems so prevalent these days. The thought of it strikes fear in many, but what can be done to prevent it? Your physician will tell you to lower your cholesterol for heart disease prevention. You may be told to use prescription medications to accomplish that. Did you know, however, that you can lower cholesterol levels too far? Were you aware that cholesterol is needed by the body to produce hormones? Physicians often fail to take this into consideration, simply prescribing what pharmaceutical companies recommend. Lowering cholesterol may be a step you should take toward heart disease prevention. We are ...
Heart Disease and Stress
When asked to name the causes of heart disease, most physicians and other medical personnel will name, instead, the risk factors for heart disease. Age, cholesterol, diabetes, gender, heredity, hypertension, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking are all named. While these are not termed "causes" of heart disease, they are contributing factors. Stress is potentially another contributing risk factor for heart disease. To date, little is known about its overall effect on the heart. However, the fight-or-flight response empowers the heart and other muscles for intense, short-term action. It is thought that the adrenalin and other substances delivered to the heart at ...
Chocolate for Heart Disease
There are many types of heart disease. For each, there are a number of risks. Genetics can often influence whether or not you will get heart disease. Other risks include things such as cigarette smoking, poor cholesterol balance, high blood pressure, and obesity. Heart Disease Defined Heart disease is defined narrowly as any malady that has an effect on the heart. Such a definition includes only the heart muscle itself. It is a synonym for cardiac disease. More widely, heart disease includes any problem with the heart muscle or the blood vessels leading to and from the muscle. Heart disease includes, but is ...
Heart Disease Information
Coronary Heart Disease – Risk FactorsThere are several ways of describing coronary heart disease (CHD). The disease is...
Is It Safe to Have an MRI after Open Heart Surgery?
Open heart surgery, whether done to repair a heart valve, to bypass artery blockage,...
Effects of Higher Altitudes on Heart Disease Patients
Individuals who are accustomed to living at lower altitudes, and then vacation or...
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Heart Disease Prevention
Coronary Heart Disease – PreventionWhether you refer to it as coronary heart disease (CHD) or coronary artery disease...
Heart Disease – Prevention Is Better than Cure
Heart disease prevention is becoming a matter of great concern as increasing numbers...
Heart Disease Prevention Tips
Heart disease. It seems so prevalent these days. The thought of it strikes fear in...
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Heart Disease Treatment
Coronary Heart Disease – TreatmentIf you are diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD), often called coronary artery disease (CAD), you will have several treatments available to you. These will depend on your personal beliefs about conventional versus alternative medicine, and on the conclusions you reach with your health care provider. The treatments presented here may or may not... [Read more of this review]
After Open Heart Surgery
How do you have open heart surgery? That is one of the first questions when your doctor recommends this radical intervention. He called it open heart surgery, but does he really open the heart, cutting through the muscle. How do you have open heart surgery? In the midst of the emotional turmoil brought on by the doctor’s recommendation, many questions... [Read more of this review]
Caring for Your Incision after Open Heart Surgery
There are a number of reasons for open heart surgery, and various types of incisions. While the standard procedure has, for many years, required an incision from just below the neck to the navel, more recent procedures are done with much smaller incisions. The information here is general. Please ask your doctor for more specific information. Your Incision... [Read more of this review]
Heart Bypass Surgery – Not Effective? Worthless?
Heart bypass surgery is not effective, worthless, say some. The same can be achieved in less invasive methods. Heart bypass surgery has become a common procedure in developed countries. Heart bypass surgery diverts blood flow around blocked sections of the heart’s arteries. Heart bypass surgery uses a piece of healthy blood vessel taken from a... [Read more of this review]
Heart Surgery – Post-Operative Nutrition
After heart surgery, post-operative nutrition becomes a matter of great concern. Anyone who has undergone open heart surgery for bypass of blocked arteries, valve repair, or other complications can attest that the thought of a repeat performance is repulsive. Full recovery from heart surgery is desired, and patients fresh out of heart surgery are willing... [Read more of this review]
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