Heart Disease Symptoms

Definition Arteriosclerotic:

Arteriosclerotic is too known as: coronary artery disease (CAD), coronary heart disease or coronary arteriosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis is a group of diseases characterized by narrowing the small blood vessels – that supply blood and oxygen to the heart (coronary arteries) -, and loss of elasticity of the wall of the heart.

In other words, coronary disease is the most common form of death in adults (women and men), because arteriosclerotic causes that coronary arteries narrow, the circulation of blood to the heart may slow or stop, consequently coronary disease usually may cause chest pain, shortness of breath, heart attack, cardiovascular disability and so on.

 

Causes of Cardiovascular disease:

There are many forms which increase the risk for cardiovascular heart disease. Some causes of cardiovascular disease are more controllable. For example:

Family history of coronary heart disease (before 50 years old).
Is more common that arteriosclerosis attacks men than woman.
If you are 65 years old or more, you should visit your doctor, because before this age increase the risk that you have cardiovascular heart disease.
You should stop smoking.
Some disease helps to develop arteriosclerotic such as: high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol levels (specifically, high LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol).
Menopause in women.
Obesity.
You should have some exercise.

Treatment Arteriosclerotic:

There are different treatment types; they depend from symptoms of each patient and how much the disease has advanced.

Some times doctors recipe to the patient a simply change in their life or medication, such as: stop smoking, routine exercise, a diet with low satured fat (this help reducing cholesterol), reducing sodium (salt). In medication doctors usually recipe medication that help to maintain low cholesterol.

If these simple treatments do not help you, doctors might need an intervention such as: Coronary angioplasty, Coronary atherectomy, Ablative laser-assisted angioplasty, Catheter-based thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy, Coronary stenting (placing a tube in the artery to keep it open), Coronary radiation implant or coronary brachytherapy, Coronary artery bypass surgery, minimally invasive heart surgery.

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