Monday, September 8, 2008

Medical Advisor Journals----Heart Diseases and Strokes-- Articles Written By Friends and Health Experts

Cardiovascular Disease - Take Care of Your Heart
By Jim Andrews


The disease which involves the heart or blood vessels and has an impact over cardiovascular system of body is termed as the cardiovascular disease. This includes coronary heart disease i.e. heart attack, high blood pressure, rheumatic heart disease, heart failure and peripheral artery disease. These diseases are the result of a number of factors including poor lifestyle habits.

Symptoms:

Symptoms of cardiovascular disease differ according to forms of the disease. But there are some common symptoms that may require you to get checked for the disease. Patients with this disease feel pain in the chest, discomfort in the arms, shortness of breath, becoming pale and getting fainting sessions.

Women commonly face problems like shortness of breath, nausea, pain in back and jaw and vomiting. Apart from this symptoms like difficulty in seeing with one or both eyes, loss of balance, severe heachache without any cause, numbness of leg most often on one part of body and difficulty walking or dizziness shows presence of cardiovascular disease. If you find any of these symptoms then as soon as possible contact your doctor and seek medicinal care.

Prevention:

Foods consisting of fish, almonds, green and leafy vegetables, fruits and garlic are very beneficial in decreasing the chances of risk for cardiovascular disease. Extra intake of salt is very harmful for patients with this disease. According to a survey people eating lesser amount of sodium have 25% reduced risk of this disease.

There are some basic categories of exercises which assist in reducing the chances of chronic disease like cardiovascular disease. Aerobic exercises are very beneficial in this disease. It helps you in maintaining better body weight and also control blood pressure.

Treatment:

Treatment for different forms of cardiovascular disease depends upon the symptoms shown in patients. Still effective treatment for this disease always includes changes in lifestyle. However, it is important that before taking any medicines first consult an expert cardiologist and have complete diagnosis of disease. It will help you in taking right treatment without introducing any harm to your body. Depending on your condition, your cardiologist might suggest you surgery to reopen or repair damaged blood vessels.

Cardiovascular disease is a serious health risk. People need a lot of awareness because this disease takes a lot of time to develop and often a silently develops in body. Prevention and knowledge about this disease can save innumerable lives.

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