What’s the link between smoking and heart disease?

Answer:

 

About 30% of all deaths from heart disease in the U.S. are directly related to cigarette smoking. Smoking is a major cause of atherosclerosis.

Among other things, the nicotine present in smoke causes:

  • Decreased oxygen to the heart.

  • Increased blood pressure and heart rate.

  • Increase in blood clotting.

  • Damage to cells that line coronary arteries and other blood vessels, triggering atherosclerosis and heart disease.

What should I do if I have risk factors for coronary artery disease?

Answer:

 

There are many things you can do to decrease your risk of developing heart disease. If the artery-clogging process has already begun, you can slow the rate at which it progresses by improving your diet, exercising, quitting smoking, and reducing stress. With very careful lifestyle modification, you can stop or even reverse the narrowing of arteries. While this is very important for everyone with risk factors for the disease, it is even more important if you have had a heart attack and/or procedure to restore blood flow to your heart or other areas of your body.
Three Kinds of Angina

t’s important to know what kind of angina you have because each has different symptoms and may need different treatment.

  • Stable angina

    consists of episodes of chest pain that are usually predictable and triggered by exertion (such as heavy lifting), or mental or emotional stress.1 Usually the chest discomfort is relieved with rest, nitroglycerin, or both.

  • Unstable angina

    doesn’t follow a pattern, is very serious, and needs emergency treatment. It usually happens when at rest.1 The discomfort may be more severe and last longer than typical angina or be the first time a person has angina.

  • Variant or Prinzmetal’s angina

    is usually spontaneous, and nearly always occurs when a person is at rest.1 It doesn’t follow physical exertion or emotional stress and can be very painful. Variant angina is caused by coronary artery spasm.

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U.S. Faces Shortage of Heart Surgeons

THURSDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) — The United States faces a dire shortage of cardiologists in the coming years, a shortage made even more critical given the increasing demands of a population rapidly growing older and heavier. Read More »

Heart Disease and the Head-Up Tilt Table Test
The head-up tilt table test is a way to find the cause of fainting spells. The test involves lying quietly on a bed and being tilted at different angles (30 to 60 degrees) for a period of time while various machines monitor your blood pressure, electrical impulses in your heart, and your oxygen level.
The head-up tilt table test is performed in a special room called the EP (electrophysiology) lab.

How Should I Prepare for the Head-Up Tilt Table Test?

If you’re scheduled for a head-up tilt table test, you should:
  • Take all your medications as prescribed.
  • Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the evening before your test. If you must take medications, drink only small sips of water to help you swallow your pills.
  • When you come for your test, bring with you a list of all your current medications, including the dose.
  • When you come to the hospital, wear comfortable clothes. It is best not to wear any jewelry or bring valuables.
  • Plan to have someone drive you home after the test.
  • If you have diabetes, ask for specific instructions on taking your medications and eating/drinking before the procedure.
Does using the birth control patch increase my risk for heart disease?
The patch is generally safe for young, healthy women. The patch can pose heart disease risks for some women, especially women older than 35; women with high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol; and women who smoke.
Recent studies show that women who use the patch may be exposed to more estrogen than women who use the birth control pill. Estrogen is the female hormone in birth control pills and the patch that keeps you from getting pregnant. Research is underway to see if the risk for blood clots is higher in patch users. Blood clots can lead to heart attack or stroke. Talk with your doctor if you have questions about the patch.

If you’re using the patch, watch for signs of trouble, including:

Eye problems such as blurred or double vision
Pain in the upper body or arm
Bad headaches
Problems breathing
Spitting up blood
Swelling or pain in the leg
Yellowing of the skin or eyes
Breast lumps
Unusual (not normal) heavy bleeding from your vagina

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What is heart disease?

Heart disease includes a number of problems affecting the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. Types of heart disease include:

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What does high blood pressure have to do with heart disease?

    Blood pressure is the force your blood makes against the walls of your arteries. The pressure is highest when your heart pumps blood into your arteries – when it beats. It is lowest between heart beats, when your heart relaxes. A doctor or nurse will write down your blood pressure as the higher number over the lower number. For instance, you could have a blood pressure of 110/70 (read as “110 over 70″). A blood pressure reading below 120/80 is usually considered normal. Very low blood pressure (lower than 90/60) can sometimes be a cause of concern and should be checked out by a doctor.

    High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 or higher. Years of high blood pressure can damage artery walls, causing them to become stiff and narrow. This includes the arteries carrying blood to the heart. As a result, your heart cannot get the blood it needs to work well. This can cause a heart attack.

   A blood pressure reading of 120/80 to 139/89 is considered prehypertension. This means that you don’t have high blood pressure now but are likely to develop it in the future.

How to avoid Angina
      Most patients, especially patients with stable angina pectoris after treatment, the symptoms can be eased or disappeared after the establishment of adequate collateral circulation for a long time without pain in the early attacks of angina pectoris may be worsening angina pectoris and angina decubitus Central syndrome can occur as part of another heart attack, so that they “pre-infarction angina pectoris referred” Read More »
Angina may be fed stays in
       China is a big country manners, when he married, children, birthday, especially in the New Year and other festive day, but always put a banquet. Nearly a full house turned out en masse, then appetite, hearty drink and smoke, now you know that many of angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or even exactly what occurred in this case.

So, why do they just eat cause angina pectoris? The main reasons are the following:

(1) Basic medical research shows that human meal there after the so-called “food specific dynamic effect”, ie, after each meal the body’s heat production, even in a calm state, strongly increased, meal more pronounced. This means that the human body are markedly increased after a meal increase metabolic oxygen demand of the heart, they have to work to meet the metabolic needs of body and thus, so that the load level of the heart also increased significantly.

(2) after a meal, the body to fully digest and absorb various nutrients, fed on one side of a large number of blood to the gastrointestinal tract, so that the relative decrease in blood supply to other organizations other hand, a significant increase in the secretion of digestive juices, thereby providing the effect on coronary arterial blood.

(3) food, especially the saturated fat meal rise in blood fat levels, blood viscosity increases, which increases blood flow, peripheral vascular resistance, cardiac overload, while the platelet aggregation induced thrombosis risk, slowly guided coronary blockage.

(4) In data, the meal so that more blood pressure decreased significantly, the original high blood pressure, blood pressure, and will continue until approximately 1 hour and returned to fasting levels when accompanied by a large number of drinking and blood pressure more sharply (13. meeting of the World Hypertension meeting, some scientists believe that sank in less than 5 hours after alcohol consumption blood pressure to normal levels) after recovery. If the blood pressure dropped suddenly and significantly, it will affect the coronary perfusion pressure.

(5) friends and family come together, emotions ran high, then the sympathetic nervous agitation, fast heart rate increased, so that oxygen consumption increases the heart muscle.

Briefly, coronary atherosclerosis, based on a combination of these factors that could increase to improve clotting of myocardial oxygen consumption, coronary blood flow reduction in the blood and trigger mechanisms of angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction.

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