Heart Disease The heart is described as a strong muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood continuously through the circulatory system through a network of elastic type tubes throughout the body. It helps make up the cardiovascular system, which consists of arteries, capillaries, and veins. Over time the heart can develop many problems such as blocked arteries caused by a buildup of cells, fat, cholesterol. This build up is commonly known as plaque. These conditions eventually lead to
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Consumer Resources(ex. financing, information, support) | Impact on Society | Heart failure | * Getting to and staying at a healthy weight * Eating a Heart-Healthy Diet * avoiding secondhand smoke. | * Heart failure is not for strong men * Heart failure only affect older people * Heart failure is for the weak(myth) | * More than 5.8 million adults in the USA are living with heart failure * Heart failure affects more men than women, and its prevalence greatly increases with
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is the most common type of heart surgery. CABG improves blood flow to the heart. Surgeons use CABG to treat people who have severe coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood to your heart. Over time, plaque can harden or rupture (break open). Hardened plaque narrows the coronary arteries and reduces the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. This can cause chest pain
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Tiarra Ehret 6/27/2016 Heart Disease Exam Part One Your heart is an organ in your body that is a muscle, but it is the pump that supplies blood to your whole body. Heart disease is a term for any disorder that affects the heart. The name heart disease is also called an Umbrella term. In this umbrella term heart disease consists of coronary heart disease, heart attack, cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure and congenital heart disease. Another name for heart disease is cardiovascular disease.
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magnitude of Heart Disease in the United States Name: Institutional Affiliation The magnitude of Heart Disease in the United States Heart disease refers to a range of conditions impacting the heart (MFMER, 2018). In the US, the most prevalent form of heart disease is coronary heart disease. This disease interferes with the flow of blood to the heart. A reduction in the flow of blood results in a heart attack (CCD, 2015). There are also other diseases under the umbrella of heart disease including
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P3, M2 1. Pulse Rate It’s the rate per minutes at which your heart beat. It can be felt wherever an artery crosses a bone such as the wrist, the neck or either side of the windpipe, temple and the upper surface of the foot. It can be measured by pressing lightly against the artery wall with 2 or 3 fingers, apart from the thumb as this has a pulse of its own. Count the number of beats in a set of period and multiply the correct multiple to make up 60s or count for 30s and multiply by 2. In order
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America. Smoking can damage your body and nearly every organ in it. These organs include, the heart, blood vessels, lungs, mouth, bones, organs, etc. The smoke from tobacco has many chemicals that are harmful to your heart and blood cells. These chemicals damage the function and structure of your heart. Smoking is a major risk of heart disease. Damages to your heart can lead to the increased risk of getting heart diseases such as atherosclerosis. This disease causes the buildup of plaque in your arteries
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and allows fatty substances to stick to the inside of the arteries and grow. As the plague grows, it leaves small space for blood to travel through the artery and feed the organ or muscle. Plaque blocking blood to the blood flow can also cause heart attack. So, stop smoking, eat healthy like butter, cream, hard cheese, cakes and biscuits, exercise such as walking, swimming and cycling, lose weight (if you are overweight
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Cardiac Arrest is a sudden stop of heart function in a person who may or may not be diagnosed with heart disease. Death occurs instantly or shortly after symptoms appear. Cardiac Arrest happen when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions. The abnormal or irregular heart rhythms called arrhythmias. Ventricular fibrillation is a arrhythmia in cardiac arrest. It’s the heart’s lower chambers suddenly start beating chaotically and don’t pump blood. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and a defibrillator
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cardiovascular disease While cardiovascular disease can refer to many different types of heart or blood vessel problems, the term is often used to mean damage caused to your heart or blood vessels by atherosclerosis (ath-ur-o-skluh-RO-sis), a buildup of fatty plaques in your arteries. This is a disease that affects your arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body. Healthy arteries are flexible and strong. Over time, however, too
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