Coronary heart disease is a chronic condition that leads to narrowing and hardening of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. This results in reduced blood flow to the heart. There are many risk factors for coronary heart disease: smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, lifestyle and family history. All of these risk factors, with the exception of the heredity factor, can be modified to significantly reduce the likelihood of its development.
Coronary heart disease manifests as sudden death (often as the first manifestation), angina, acute myocardial infarction or heart failure (rarely as the first manifestation).
It's not about self-diagnosis, but what matters most is the moment you feel something weird happen by calling for first aid right away.
More specifically, if you notice the following symptoms, then seek medical help immediately.
- Chest discomfort: discomfort in the heart area may last a few minutes or go away and come back. Discomfort is perceived by most as pain or suffocating pressure
- Pain in one or both arms, back, neck, jaw or stomach are worrying signs of a heart attack
- Dyspnoea
- Unusual reactions of the body, such as sudden cold sweats, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and extreme tiredness
Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmias (eg in the US alone there are more than two million patients). In atrial fibrillation the heart beats fast and irregularly. Atrial fibrillation can cause "fluttering", chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, and even stroke. Patients with atrial fibrillation are five times more likely to have a stroke.
The chance of developing atrial fibrillation increases with age, but it can also occur in young people. Treatment for atrial fibrillation includes drugs that help restore heart rate or heart rate and anticoagulants that make the blood thinner and help prevent stroke by preventing blood clots from forming.
The Rhythm Holter is a portable electrocardiograph that records the electrical activity of a patient's heart for 24 hours. This test is usually necessary when your doctor suspects an arrhythmia, often based on the symptoms you report, such as that your heart is beating fast or fast or that you are feeling "fluttering".
The examination is painless and does not require special preparation on the part of the examinee. Cables from the device are applied to his skin, and then he is called to follow his usual daily routine. He will also need to keep a small diary so that the doctor can relate the results of the recording to the symptoms reported by the examinee himself.
It is an electronic device that replaces the heart's natural pacemaker by sending it electrical pulses and allowing it to have a normal rhythm. The pacemaker system consists of the generator, which produces the stimuli, and the electrodes, which transmit them to the heart, while transmitting signals from the heart to the pacemaker. Based on these signals, if the natural heart rate drops below the threshold, the generator sends stimuli to force it to contract, and if the frequency is greater than the frequency of the pacemaker, it stops production. their.
1. Chest pain
2. Feeling of pulses
3. Easy Fatigue
4. Persistent shortness of breath
5. Dizziness
6. Nausea and loss of appetite
7. Cyanosis
8. Sweating
9. Swelling
10. Blows
If you experience any of the above symptoms, consult your cardiologist immediately.
The subject is cycling, an activity that is easily accepted. Its use has many advantages:
- The examinee is seated so he has less or no stress, does not feel dizzy from the constantly moving carpet or loses his balance or his courage to continue the fatigue and performs the exercise of his own free will without feeling compelled.
- The chest and arms are a stable condition for recording ECG without parasites and correct measurement of BP.
- Allows obese-obese people to be tested without being overwhelmed by their extra pounds (which is unfortunately the case with the carpet) and to complete the test successfully.
- It is easy to understand that the elderly can now be controlled without difficulty as well as children in whom it is the method of choice since they already have pleasant experiences with their bike, the examination is quiet and does not scare them.