Life with A Diseased Heart
A life with a healthy heart is something that is beyond wonderful. Unfortunately, many people of the world cannot embrace this feeling. Individuals all over the world deal with heart disease. 15 million and counting, heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the U.S.
What is heart disease exactly? Heart disease is a disorder blood vessels within the heart. Heart disease cannot be cured. Once an individual is diagnosed with it, they will always have it. There are procedures that exist to help make the blood and oxygen flow towards the heart more comfortably. But unfortunately, the arteries will remain damaged, making it possible for a heart attack to occur.
“Risk factors are conditions or habits that make a person more likely to develop a disease, and can also increase the chances that an existing disease will get worse.” (“Lower Heart Disease Risk”). The main risk factors for heart disease includes the following: High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, obesity, being physically active, and having history of heart disease in the family. Unfortunately, family history of heart disease cannot be altered in any way.
There is not an ethnic group that is not affected by heart disease. However, “the cardiovascular disease death rate among African Americans is 34 percent higher than for the overall U.S. population”. (“The Facts of Cardiovascular Disease”) African American women ages 50 and up are twice as likely as Caucasian women to be diagnosed with heart disease, and is more likely than Caucasian women to have a heart attack. A heart attack is the most common outcome of heart disease.
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Executing stretching activities helps out a lot too. Everybody stretch before they do any physical activities. Not stretching before a physical activity can result in pulling a muscle. Lifting weights is a great way to prevent heart disease also. “You can use weights, resistance bands, or your own body weight (yoga poses, for instance) for this.” ("Exercise for A Healthy Heart”). This should be done at least 2 times a week. The body should rest on other days for muscle recovery. Keep all of this up, and the heart will remain healthy, just as it should be.
Life should be happy and stress free! Ways to prevent heart disease does exist. Life itself isn’t fair without a healthy heart. The fact that heart disease is the leading killer of both men and women should be a wake up call for everyone. So get up, start jogging, and get ready for a healthy, happy life!
Cardiomyopathy, by definition, means the weakening of the heart muscle. The heart is operated by a striated muscle that relies on the autonomic nervous system to function. Cardiomyopathy is diagnosed in four different ways based on what caused the illness and exactly what part of the heart is weakened. The four main types of cardiomyopathy are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. One other category of cardiomyopathy that is diagnosed is “unclassified cardiomyopathy.” Unclassified cardiomyopathy is the weakening of the heart that does not fit into the main four categories.
It was to this respect that, the search could detect ‘’hypertension’’ as the leading risk factor for heart disease. And this preceded three quarters of heart failures cases as compared to coronary artery disease, which led to most heart failures in less than 40% of the cases. Also, an increase in left ventricular end-diastolic diameter became a mirror to the Framingham study as incident heart diseases in the individuals who are free from myocardial infarction. Although studies have shown that, the manifestation of heart failures can be present without the left ventricular systolic dysfunction, other risk factors could lead to that. Also, they (Framingham study) were able to detect ‘’too much of cholesterol’’ as a link to cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, research believed that has elevated among certain heart diseases such as coronary heart often leads to stroke, too high blood pressure among numerous patients. Having said that, the search discovered ‘’obesity’’ also as a concomitantly with hypertension which elevates lipids and diabetes versus questions on smoking behavior. Having said that, these risk factors are believed to have attributed to heart diseases. Therefore, it became a national concern to the general US population and that of the fourth director of Framingham heart study, William Castelli
If we were to apply a longitude exposure study over the span of 42 years from the time an inner-city child is born, we may conclude that life experiences resulting from potential malnutrition, underprivileged environments, and overall lack of health education are the leading contributors to adult African American deaths. Studies show that 8 of the 10 leading causes in the deaths of African Americans are medical disease, which with proper education and care may have been prevented and/or addressed earlier in their life to diagnose and treat. The fact is Heart Disease is the leading cause of deaths for African Americans. When compared to other ethnicities, some form of heart disease causes 24.5% of African American deaths. These numbers are astounding considering Blacks make up approximately only 14.2% of the total U.S. population. The contributing factor is lack of knowledge and family medical screening. Understanding the history of your genial line specific to your race and ...
The hereditary risk factors for cardiovascular disease are primarily those of which individuals are unable to control, the ones for which they are born with. These risk factors would include an individual’s sex, race, age, and genetics. One out of every five males has some form of cardiovascular disease and the same applies for females. More women than men have cardiovascular disease in this country, but this is only due to the fact that there are more women within the U.S. population (Weiss and Lonnquist, 2011). Men percentage wise are at a higher risk than women. There is a somewhat reduced probability for females to have cardiovascular disease before menopause. This is believed by medical researchers and scientists to be directly related to the natural hor...
Heart disease is of utmost and imperative concern in the United States. It stands at the top of the list for causes of death in the U.S., and it can be absolutely devastating (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013). In part one of the health disparities paper, disparity in relation to heart disease was pointed out in those of low socioeconomic status and/or minorities. Part two of this paper has been streamlined towards a more specific minority: African Americans women. The reason for focusing on the African American women population is that there is a huge amount of disparity seen specifically in this group. As of 2009, African Americans as a whole had 30% more of a chance of dying from cardiovascular disease than Caucasians (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health [OMH], 2012). The rate of Cardiovascular Disease in African American women specifically is higher at 48.9% than the rate of CVD in African American men at 44.4%, showing even greater disparity in African American women (American Heart Association, 2013). The goal of this paper is to identify and appraise two different articles surrounding this topic. Both articles involve an intervention in which similar community prevention programs were implemented in hopes to reduce the risk of CVD in African American women.
There are multiple cardiovascular diseases that can occur in some people that can be moderate and some severe. A heart attack is one of them and it happens when blood is blocked by a clot, making the heart unable to pump blood throughout the body. Most of cardiovascular diseases are related to lifestyles and other non-preventable factors like ages. Coronary artery disease is a heart disease, that is caused by atherosclerosis, which is a buildup of plaque in the arteries which causes less blood flow to the heart. If plaque were to rupture it can block blood vessels which then leads to “unstable angina or a heart attack” (NHLBI). The heart also has different heart rhythms, people with bradycardia have a slow heart rate sometimes below 60. Some causes of bradycardia are increased vagal tone, SA disease, and digitoxin od. However, sometimes this can be normal in athletes who are very fit. On the opposite side we have tachycardia, which has a heart greater than 100 BPM. The causes for tachycardia usually are exercise, fever, anxiety, hypovolemia, anemia, pump failure, hypoxia, and high parathyroid
Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Diseases under the heart disease umbrella include blood vessel diseases, heart rhythm problems, and heart defects. The major cause of this is a build-up of fatty plaques in the arteries. Plaque build-up thickens and stiffens the vessel walls, which can inhibit blood flow through the arteries to organs and tissues.
Heart disease can take many forms. The form of heart disease I am focusing on is coronary disease. Different arteries supply different areas of the heart with oxygenated blood. If one or more of these arteries become narrowed or clogged as a result of coronary artery disease, or atherscelorosis the artery cannot fully supply the part of the heart it is responsible for. The heart is an effective pump only when good blood supply is maintained to all heart muscles.
One of the leading causes of death in the United States is heart disease. “Approximately every 29 seconds one American will have a heart attack, and once a minute one American will die from a heart attack” (Ford-Martin and Odle, 915). According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine men over the age of 45 and women over the age of 55 are considered at risk for heart disease. Heart disease is a major cause of death. It is beneficial to individuals who seek to prevent heart disease to recognize the risks leading to heart attacks as they are one of the primary indications of developing heart disease; especially those that fall into the at risk age groups. These risks consist of some that cannot be changed such as heredity risks, or those that can change such as smoking habits. It is very important to know these specific risks for prevention and to understand the symptoms of heart attacks, such as sweating or the feeling of weakness so if these or other symptoms occur people are aware. Finally heart disease treatment is of vital importance if you experience a heart attack so you can learn how to prevent another one from occurring.
Some of the key factors of heart disease are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Half of Americans have one of these three risk factors. Center for Disease Control states that several other medical conditions and lifestyle choices can also put people at a higher risk for heart disease, including; diabetes, overweight and obesity, poor diet, poor physical activity and, excessive alcohol abuse (Americas heart disease burden, 2013). Heart disease is a group of diseases of the heart and the blood vessel system in the heart. Coronary heart disease is the most common type; it affects the blood vessels of the heart. African American women are more likely to die from heart disease than any other race because some say African-American women don’t get the same treatment as the white race will get.
An unhealthy diet and physical inactivity can cause raised blood pressure, raised glucose levels, raised blood lipids, overweight and obesity in individuals, which puts them at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Unlike behavior risk factors, which can be controlled or modified, there are fixed risk factors like like race, gender, and age that can also contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease.
(Slide 2) What is Cardiomyopathy? If we break down the word we can see “Cardio” which means of the heart, “myo” which means muscle, and “pathy” which means disease, therefore cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle. (Slide 3) There are 3 main types of cardiomyopathies; hypertrophic, dilated, and restrictive. I will only be discussing dilated cardiomyopathy, which is characterized by the enlargement of the hearts chambers with impaired systolic function. It is estimated that as many as 1 of 500 adults may have this condition. Dilated cardiomyopathy is more common in blacks than in whites and in males than in females. It is the most common form of cardiomyopathy in children and it can occur at any age (CDC).
Heart disease is a terrible disease because lots of people have it. “You can prevent heart disease by eating less starch”(The Real Cause of Heart Disease). Due to eating good, healthy foods you can easily prevent heart disease. “You can prevent heart disease by eating less sugars”(The Real Cause of Heart Disease). The foods we eat everyday is the main cause of heart disease and that is why people are affected by it. People do not have healthy eating habits and they do not exercise regularly leading to the disease. The better your healthy habits the better you will be with less disease.
...use of death in America, in which all in part due to smoking cigarettes. The best way to keep your heart healthy is to eat well, get lots of exercise, and not smoke cigarettes. Our heart and its many functions all work together as one huge electrical system with h the four heart valves as the command center which leads the blood to support the rest of the body. If it was not for our heart and its important job, we would not be able to breathe or live. It is essential to keep it healthy. Our hearts are so important and I think sometimes, we take that for granted. Our four chambers is our life. The better you take care of it, the better it works. It is a very fascinating process and a very long process but it is important that we keep in mind how vital this fist-sized organ is to our bodies. The four chambers of our heart make up the foundation of our very existence.
Heart disease can refer to an assortment of diseases affecting the heart. A heart attack happens when a heart muscle is destroyed or hurt due to not getting enough oxygenated blood to maintain life. Different examples of Heart Disease include Cardiomyopathy, Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, and Ischemic Heart Disease. Pediatric Heart Information for Patients, Families, Medical Professionals – Information on different. heart conditions and diseases in children.