Heart Disease in 2011

These diseases can affect any part of the heart. However, the most common disease is a chronic disease in the coronary arteries is called atherosclerosis. Therefore, developing heart disease are commonly known and most common is coronary heart disease or coronary artery disease. The disease is most common cause of heart attack in someone who can cause death. The cause is narrowing of the coronary arteries, where the vessel serves to provide blood to the heart muscle. The narrowing is caused by a pile of cholesterol or other proteins derived from food that enters the body. This buildup causes the coronary arteries become stiff. Stiffness is called atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis occurs when there is accumulation of plaque or fatty deposits on artery walls. Over time, plaque can build up, harden and narrow arteries, and inhibits blood flow to the heart. Coronary artery disease or coronary artery disease (CAD) is that basically leads to most heart attacks.

Blockage in one or more coronary arteries can cause heart attacks are sudden. The reason for asking the heart exceeds the available oxygen so that trigger heart attacks. Why? If the heart muscle does not receive oxygen for a long time, the surrounding tissue can be damaged. Unlike other tissues, the heart muscle does not regenerate. The longer the attack, the more damage to the heart and the more likely to die.

Even in the arteries that are not too narrow because timbungan plaque and fatty, deposits of plaque can break off and form a crust of blood or thrombus. In addition, the diseased arteries also tend to experience sudden muscle contractions. Thus, a piece of crust in the blood can form a contraction, releasing chemicals which then result in narrowing the artery wall, triggering a heart attack.

If the working system of the heart is damaged, the heart's normal rhythm can become chaotic and the heart began to tremble with erratic or experiencing fibrillation. This abnormal rhythm known as arrhythmia is a deviation from normal heart rhythm. This will cause the heart loses its ability to effectively pump blood to the brain. Within ten minutes, brain death and the patient was beyond help.

In addition to coronary heart disease due to fat deposition in the arterial wall, there are also other heart diseases caused by abnormalities at birth. For example an imperfect heart, heart valve disorders, weakened heart muscle. Another cause is the bacteria that cause infections of the heart.

Causes and Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the circumstances where there is an imbalance between the needs of the heart muscle of oxygen with the provision that is provided by the coronary blood vessels.

Inability of coronary blood vessels to supply oxygen is usually caused by blockage athroma (plaque) * see zoom image of blood vessels on the left * on the inner walls of the coronary blood vessels.

What is the result of Athroma?

The heart serves to pump oxygen-rich blood throughout the body's lungs. When heart muscle is starved of oxygen then the ability will be reduced, thus unable to provide the oxygen the body organs according to their needs (heart trouble).

Are the consequences if the blocked coronary arteries?

If the sudden blockage of coronary arteries and can not be immediately replaced by coronary vascular function other then the heart muscle will die who should be served. Symptoms depend how many percent blockage occurs and how many blood vessels are affected.

SYMPTOMS (ranging from the lightest to heaviest):

1. Chest pain (angina pectoris)
2. Unstable chest pain (Unstable angina pectoris)
3. Death of some heart muscle (myocardial infarction)
4. Sudden death

CAUSES OF CORONARY HEART

Commonly called risk factors, namely:

The main cause (Major):

1. Smoke
2. High blood pressure (hypertension)
3. Diabetes
4. High cholesterol
5. Offspring

 Additional Causes (Minor)

1. Obesity (overweight)
2. Lack of exercise / physical (Sedentary)
3. Stress
4. Age, the older the risk increases
5. Use of certain drugs (steroids)

What to do when exposed to coronary heart disease?

• Avoid risk factors that could have been avoided
• When you are exposed, treatment should be disciplined.

By understanding that cardiovascular disease (coronary arteries) is a process of lifelong treatment, it would require some treatment components such as health education, counseling about diet and metabolism, as well as psychological counseling to help patients.

Coronary Heart Disease is the number one killer disease in the world.

Coronary heart disease is a type of attack that many of Indonesia's population. This condition is caused by narrowing / blockage in the coronary artery walls due to fatty deposits and cholesterol, resulting in suplaian blood to the heart becomes impaired. Changes in lifestyle, diet, and stress can also lead to the occurrence of coronary heart disease.

What Causes Coronary Heart Disease?

The cause of coronary heart disease is due to excessive buildup of fatty substances in the lining of artery walls of the coronary vessels, which are influenced by a less healthy diet. Addicted to smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol can also be a cause of coronary heart disease.

Symptoms of Coronary Heart Disease

Symptoms such as coronary heart disease:

Pain in the chest, more specifically the center of the chest pain that radiates to the left arm or neck, even to the backs. Chest pain like this is the typical pain of coronary heart disease. This pain arises only when doing physical activity and will be reduced at rest.

Accompanying symptoms such as sweating and the onset of nausea.

Coronary Heart Disease & Cardiovascular Genetics

Medically heart disease are grouped into two kinds: coronary heart disease and a genetic heart disease. Coronary heart disease arises when there is narrowing of blood vessels to the heart. While genetic factors (congenital) found since the age of the baby.

Heart disease, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease is a deadly disease. Around the world, the number of people with this disease continues to grow. These three categories of disease can not be separated from the unhealthy lifestyle that many will follow the changing pattern of life.

Trigger factors of heart attack are among others:

Smoke

Consuming foods high in cholesterol.

Less movement.

Supine exercise.

Stress.

Lack of rest.

Heart attack is a condition when the damage suffered by the heart muscle (myocardium) due to very sudden decrease in blood supply to part of the body.

Treatment and Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

Following the traditional recipe concoction of Prof. H.M. Hembing Wijayakusuma:

1-3 Noni / pace / noni mature in the wash and cut into pieces, then blended with enough water and boil. Add honey to taste, then drink.

2-3 Noni / pace / ripe noni washed and cut into pieces + 10 grains angco, deseeded. All material is blended with enough water, add 10 grams of powdered leaves tubers god (Thien chi). Stir well, then drink.

2 mengkudu / pace / noni cooked, washed and cut into pieces + 30 grams of god leaves boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 300 cc. Strain, add honey to taste. Stir well and drink.

Coronary Heart Disease Treatment Tips

Coronary heart disease is the narrowing of small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. Coronary heart disease is also called coronary artery disease. Coronary heart disease is usually caused by a condition called atherosclerosis, which occurs when fatty material and other substances form plaques on artery walls. This causes the arteries to become narrow the blood flowed. Because the flow in the coronary arteries narrow, blood to the heart become slow and even stop. This can cause chest pain (stable angina), shortness of breath, heart attack, and other symptoms, especially when being active.

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, while in Indonesia a problem the third largest non-communicable diseases both men and women. Before talking about the treatment of coronary heart disease, there are some things that increase the risk of heart disease:

1. Men in their 40s have a higher risk than women. But the unique women get older (especially after they reach menopause) are at risk is almost the same as a man.
2. Heredity may be a risk. For those who already suffer from coronary heart disease, aka great opportunity to lower the tone to his son, and if this happens the child would not want to get special attention from birth, especially in terms of treatment of coronary heart diidapnya.
3. Diabetes and chronic kidney disease is a strong risk factor for coronary heart disease.
4. High blood pressure increases the risk of coronary artery disease and heart failure.
5. Smokers have a higher risk than nonsmokers.

Treatment of coronary heart

For the treatment of coronary heart disease, there may be some testing to be performed such medical team:

1. Coronary angiography / arteriography: an invasive procedure designed to evaluate the coronary arteries under x-ray
2. CT angiography: a non-invasive ways to perform coronary angiography
3. Echocardiogram
4. Electrocardiogram (EKG)
5. Electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) to look for calcium in the artery lining. The more calcium, the higher your chances of coronary heart disease.
6. Magnetic resonance angiography

Not infrequently patients with coronary heart disease will be asked to consume one or more drugs. Why? Because in order treatment of coronary heart there are some that should be of concern, such as drug delivery blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol levels. Follow your doctor's instructions closely to help prevent coronary artery disease from getting worse. Some drugs that may be provided such as ACE inhibitors (to reduce blood pressure), diuretics, aspirin, beta blockers, nitrates, statins, etc.. Operation steps are also things that are not infrequently we find as a therapy for those who already can not be cured through the streets of drugs.