Coronary Heart Disease

1161 Words3 Pages

Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease occurs when the coronary arteries become

partially blocked from, cholesterol and fat, circulating in the blood.

This causes a build up inside the walls of the arteries. This only

occurs if the levels of fat and cholesterol are extremely high in the

blood that there is a greater chance that it will be deposited onto

the artery walls. If the arteries become completely blocked, the

patient will have a myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart

attack. A heart attack can cause permanent damage to the heart muscle,

and can sometimes be fatal if immediate treatment is not given. There

are other contributing factors other than fatty deposits which can

cause coronary heart disease such as high blood pressure. The focus of

this quote is that this disease is caused by the person who has

contracted it. However, this statement is not totally correct because

there is evidence to suggest that heart disease can occur from

uncontrollable circumstances; such as gender, heredity and age. In

this essay I shall evaluate both controllable and uncontrollable

circumstances for someone to suffer from coronary heart disease.

Obesity is one risk in which it is often brought about by the person

themselves. This is because it is in the control of the person.

Therefore their decisions can be made without consultation. However,

by being over weight it increases the total cholesterol levels in the

blood (2). Liver makes cholesterol from the saturated fats in the

blood; it enters the blood and is transported around by proteins known

as “lipoproteins”. There are two types of lipoproteins low density and

high d...

... middle of paper ...

...its along with environmental risks can both

contribute to causing heart disease and the same symptoms.

Bibliography

1. The website

http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/hd.html

2. The website

http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/931375421.html

3. The leaflet

“Eating for your heart” by British Heart foundation, issued September

2001

4. The encyclopaedia

Britannica 2004

5. The Book

“Advanced biology, Page 158, issued 2000 by Grace Monger

6. The leaflet

“Blood pressure” by British Heart foundation, issued September 2001

7. The website

http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/blood/articleView.asp?MessageID=579

8. The website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/16/sosteacher/biology/32764.shtml

9. The website

http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc14.html

More about Coronary Heart Disease

Open Document