Should people with heart disease be particularly concerned about H1N1 influenza (also called swine flu)? And what precautions should they take to avoid problems with H1N1?
Influenza (flu) is caused by a viral infection that produces a host of very nasty symptoms — fever, muscle aches and pains, weakness, headache, watery eyes, sore throat, runny nose, and cough. While most of these symptoms are seen with many other viral infections, they tend to be worse much when you have actual influenza. So people with flu tend to be “sicker” than people with most other respiratory viral infections. In fact, the respiratory (lung) complications of flu lead to many of the 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths caused each year in the United States by influenza viruses. Read More »
Myocardial infarction is the result of sustained and serious part of the myocardial ischemia caused by acute myocardial necrosis. Often because of coronary atherosclerotic plaque rupture and bleeding, thrombosis caused by acute coronary artery caused by complete occlusion. The main clinical manifestations of the sudden and sustained severe angina pectoris. Nitroglycerin treatment is to ease and can be associated with decreased blood pressure, sweating, and even a sense of dying.
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① cardiac dysfunction: oral digoxin, each 0.125-0.25 mg, 1-2 times a day, while oral administration
Diuretic Hydrochlorothiazide, each 25 mg 3 times a day, and spironolactone 20 mg per day,
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Heart valve disease caused by the wind of the most common symptoms are breathlessness, chest tightness, chest pain, palpitations, hemoptysis, and fatigue and so on. However, these symptoms can also be caused by other factors, and disease, so detailed as to all the characteristics of symptoms to diagnosis to provide more precise information.
1, difficulty in breathing: breathing difficulty is that there is insufficient air for patients with subjective feelings or respiratory effort, objectively, manifested as respiratory rate, depth, and rhythm changes. According to pathogenesis, difficulty in breathing can be divided into cardiogenic dyspnea, pulmonary dyspnea, central respiratory problems, mental neurological diseases dyspnea, toxic dyspnea and blood immunogenicity of six basic types of breathing difficulty. Rheumatic heart disease of the breathing difficulty is due to valvular heart disease led to long-term or rapid pulmonary congestion, alveolar elasticity decreased, ventilation dysfunction, reduced cardiac output, blood flow slowed down, ventilation dysfunction, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide retention leading to pulmonary circulation the pressure increased, causing respiratory reflex excitability increased with the rules.
2, chest pain: Chest pain is a common symptom may be caused by a variety of reasons, sometimes originated in the local minor damage so irrelevant, and sometimes because of internal organs caused by disease, is often of great significance. According to the origin of chest pain can be divided into chest wall disease, chest disease, and other organs, causes chest pain, chest pain caused by heart disease, known as cardiogenic chest pain. Rheumatic heart valve disease caused by angina, chest or pericardial chest pain caused by damage to belong to this column.
Third, syncope is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness, due to insufficient blood supply to the brain caused by a time of widespread. The main reason: to reduce cardiac output (aortic valve disease) or cardiac arrest (conduction block), a sudden severe drop in blood pressure (a large number of aortic valve regurgitation), or the universality of temporary occlusion of cerebral blood vessels (thrombosis off) . Cardiogenic syncope in severe cases, known as acute cardiogenic cerebral ischemia syndrome. 4, palpitations (palpitation) is the conscious heart beat accompanied by precordial discomfort, a common cause of cardiac arrhythmia, increased heart beat and so on. An overview of the Department of rheumatic heart disease rheumatic fever
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what would it take to avoid a heart surgeon? How about a multivitamin + mineral pill + some omega-3 oil (canola-rapeseed, flax, fish)? Add a diet low in processed food and a good ‘lifestyle’ (don’t smoke, control waist size, manage stress well, some exercise) and you will improve general health and help prevent heart disease. I know, it is normal to believe you’re eating a good diet but there is mathematical certainty even the best diet does not get you to most vitamins levels our bodies, and genome, developed on. Supplementation is safe, cheap, easy, essential and fixes those problems. This site looks at the food, supplement and prevention side of disease. I study nutrition in medicine as an independent researcher but it is not my job. This site doesn’t generate money or sell anything. Below are highlights about the nutrients that prevent damage to your artery and bone structure and sometimes even cure it, and about those that can help you survive already existing artery damage.
In food processing, as when making flour or noodles, we lose 60-90% of most heart healthy vitamins. We degrade proteins by frying and high heat and our factories hydrogenate oil which first zaps all omega-3 (really vitamin F-3) by trans-forming it into toxic trans fat. Science shows that a heart healthy diet is one with relatively unprocessed foods with veggies and some fruits, and rice or grains that retain some of their original kernel-structure to slow digestion. Such ‘whole’ foods became scarce in Western diets. If you can’t recognize part of the original food, the item is processed or refined. Some eggs, liver or fish are probably also vital for most of us.
Why a add multi-vitamin pill to your diet? Well, most fast single nutrient diseases like scurvy, beriberi and goiter were wiped out by food fortification, our ‘weapon of mass nutrition’. However, processed foods low in many nutrients such as vitamins B6, B12, folic acid and others, cause ‘Long-Latency Deficiency Diseases‘, such as heart disease, cancer, bone loss and Alzheimer’s. Think of these as nutrient deficiency diseases with long incubation periods and the science suddenly makes sense! Start with cholesterol and the science will never makes sense (can your doctor explain the 6th figure from the bottom?).
A study suggests that researchers will have to find a better way to identify who is more likely to develop heart disease.
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading cause of death. It includes heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure.
Over the years, researchers have identified several substances in the blood that can serve as what they call cardiac biomarkers. These are used to measure the presence and development of cardiovascular disease.
Researchers have increasingly tried to use these biomarkers to identify people who are at high risk of developing heart disease. But a new study has found that they offer little help in this way.
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital and Sweden’s Lund University studied how effective the biomarkers are as predictors. Thomas Wang at the Mass General Heart Center was the senior author of the study.
THOMAS WANG: “What we found is that, in fact, even after measuring those additional biomarkers that there wasn’t a great deal of benefit in terms of understanding who was more likely to develop heart disease.”
Doctor Wang says they did identify some combinations of biomarkers that improved predictions of heart attacks and strokes. But, he says, there is not enough evidence to justify measuring these in everybody.
THOMAS WANG: “It’s still possible that in certain patients, measuring these biomarkers would be helpful. There are some patients for whom physicians are really on the fence about whether to give one therapy or another. And in those cases having the biomarker which adds a little bit of information may be helpful in terms of decision making. But for the majority of patients, having the information of the biomarker probably wouldn’t make a difference.”
Doctor Wang hopes future research will discover biomarkers that are better able to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease. But for now, he says, doctors should depend on traditional risk factors. These include a history of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, tobacco use, diabetes, obesity, physical inactivity or poor nutrition.
A separate study found no support for a theory that a biomarker called C-reactive protein causes heart disease. Earlier research suggested that the more of the protein in people’s blood, the more likely they are to develop heart disease. The new study confirmed a link, but did not find evidence that the C-reactive protein causes the disease.
Both studies appeared in the July 1st issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.
The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in 2005. That was 30 percent of all deaths. Eight out of ten happened in low and middle income countries. At current growth rates, the W.H.O. expects the number to reach 20 million by 2015.
And that’s the VOA Special English Health Report, written by June Simms. I’m Steve Ember
Heart disease often has no symptoms. But, there are some signs to watch for. Chest or arm pain or discomfort can be a symptom of heart disease and a warning sign of a heart attack. Shortness of breath (feeling like you can’t get enough air), dizziness, nausea (feeling sick to your stomach), abnormal heartbeats, or feeling very tired also are signs. Talk with your doctor if you’re having any of these symptoms. Tell your doctor that you are concerned about your heart. Your doctor will take a medical history, do a physical exam, and may order tests.
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The main symptoms of heart attack and was accompanied by oppressive chest pain, chest tightness, and so on, this discomfort may spread to the shoulders, neck, jaw, arm or back. Accompanied by dizziness, vertigo, sweating, nausea and vomiting, difficulty in breathing. Read More »
Oct. 7, 2009 — When it comes to seeking treatment for chest pain, education doesn’t always mean people do the right thing.
In a new study, heart patients who received counseling about heart attack symptoms and when to get treatment were no more likely to get immediate care than those who had not received counseling. This is disappointing because patients who receive care within 90 minutes after the onset of heart attack symptoms fare much better.
