Heart Diseases and Related Vascularsystems have now become a huge problem of modern human civilization. Moreover, the more prosperous the society is in terms of living standards, the more serious the situation is in the number of people suffering from coronary heart diseases.
What is coronary heart disease?
In addition to the heart itself, in this activityvessels are also involved, whose system permeates the human body, which completely ensures uninterrupted delivery of everything necessary to the organs that are most distant from the heart.
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The full operation of this system providescardiac muscle, the rhythm and fullness of contractions of which also depend on the normal supply of blood - the carrier of everything necessary for normal functioning of the human body. Blood to the heart muscle enters the vessels called the coronary.
Hence the names:coronary vessel, coronary artery, etc. And if the required flow of blood in the coronary arteries is reduced, the heart muscle is deprived of food, which leads to the occurrence of coronary diseases such as heart failure, abnormal heart rhythms and heart attacks. The cause of all is coronary atherosclerosis.
What is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries, and what is it terrible?
Over time and under the influence of manyfactors that will be discussed further, fats, lipids settle on the artery walls, forming constantly growing sticky plaques that create obstacles to normal blood flow.
Thus, the lumen of the artery graduallydecreases, and oxygen to the heart comes less and less, which leads to pain in the chest region, angina. At first, these pains can disturb a person only under heavy loads, but gradually become a response even to small efforts, and later they can arise in a state of rest.
Complications and Atherosclerosis Related Diseases
Atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries inevitablyleads to such a disease as coronary heart disease. It is worth noting that the so-called heart diseases claim incomparably more lives than oncological or infectious diseases - and in the most developed countries.
Coronary artery disease in a natural wayIt has a negative effect on the heart muscle, which, in turn, causes angina, heart attacks, heart attacks, heart rhythm disturbances, heart failure and the worst thing is heart death.
Symptoms for coronary heart disease
The human body has an individualanatomical structure. And the anatomy of the heart, the arteries that feed it, each have their own characteristics. The heart feeds on two coronary arteries - right and left. And it is the left coronary artery that provides the heart muscle with oxygen in the quantity required for its normal functioning.
With a decrease in blood flow in itchest pains - symptoms of angina, and their appearance is often not associated with special loads. A person can experience them and being at rest, for example in a dream, and while walking, especially over rough terrain or stairs. Such pains can also be caused by weather conditions: in winter, in cold and windy weather, they can be disturbed more often than in summer.
What you need to know about angina
First of all, this disease isthe result of acute heart failure, provoked by insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle due to the fact that the coronary artery is affected - the left. Another name for the disease, known to many of the Russian classical literature, is the angina pectoris.
Болевые ощущения не постоянны, а приступообразны, and their duration is generally from 10 to 15 minutes. Although there are up to half an hour - in this case, possible heart attack of the heart muscle. Attacks can be repeated with an interval of 30 times a day to once a month, and even years.
Factors contributing to the development of coronary heart disease
Как уже говорилось ранее, коронарные болезни hearts are the result of damage to the coronary arteries. There are several generally recognized factors in which the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle becomes unusable.
The first of them can rightly be called the excessively high level of cholesterol in human blood, which, due to its viscosity, is the primary cause of plaque formation on the artery walls.
The next risk factor contributing to the development of heart disease, namely heart attack, is hypertension - excessive blood pressure.
The coronary arteries of the heart are greatly damaged.from smoking. The risk of damage to the walls of the arteries increases many times due to the harmful effects on them of chemical compounds that make up tobacco smoke.
The next risk factor that increases the likelihoodlesions of the coronary vessels, is a disease such as diabetes. With this disease, the entire human vascular system is subject to atherosclerosis, and the likelihood of heart disease at an earlier age increases significantly.
Heredity can also be attributed to factorsrisk affecting the onset of heart disease. Especially if the fathers of potential patients were recorded heart attacks, or death occurred as a result of coronary diseases before the age of 55 years, and in mothers - up to 65 years.
Prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease
Избежать или уменьшить риск заболеть коронарными heart disease can, if carried out strictly and continuously, a few simple recommendations, which include a healthy lifestyle, the rejection of bad habits, reasonable exercise and the passage of annual check-ups.
Treatment of coronary heart disease concludesThere are several options: medication therapy and cardiac surgery. The most common is coronary artery bypass surgery, in which blood is sent to the heart muscle along a detour route: along a segment of a healthy vessel, hemmed in parallel to the affected aorta area, taken from the patient himself. The operation is complex, and after it the patient needs a long period of rehabilitation.
Another treatment is angioplasty.coronary artery using a laser. This option is more gentle and does not require dissection of large segments of the body. To the affected area of the coronary artery get through the vessels of the shoulder, thigh or forearm.
Unfortunately, whatever operations are performed, buteven the most successful of them do not eliminate atherosclerosis. Therefore, in the future it is necessary to comply with all medical prescriptions, this applies not only to medical drugs, but also the recommended diet.
