Heart Disease Articles

• Heart Disease Symptom
  Heart disease is one of those silent killers for which it is important to watch. However, in order to identify heart disease in yourself or those around you, you need to be at least somewhat familiar with the symptoms associated with it. With that in mind, here are a few of the more common symptoms of heart disease and what they mean to you and those you care about.
  
  
• Coronary Heart Disease
  Coronary heart disease kills over 900,000 people in the United States each year. In fact, in America, coronary heart disease kills more people than the sum of the next 7 non-violent causes of death.
  
  
• Congenital Heart Disease
  Congenital heart disease can be deadly, but is misunderstood by many. For a lot of the population, there is no real difference between heart disease and the distinguishing word of congenital.
  
  
• Ischemic Heart Disease
  When there is a reduction of blood flow to the heart of a person, then it may be a sign of ischemic heart disease. When you hear talk of artery hardening or major arteries blocking, you are actually hearing a description of what those in the medical field call ischemic heart disease.
  
  
• Heart Valve Disease
  Most heart valve disease is congenital, meaning a person may have been born with a narrow heart valve, irregular sized valve flaps, stiff or leaky valves. People with a congenital valvular disease may have known of their condition since birth or have only come to know of their disease when they reach adulthood.
  
  
• Preventing Heart Disease
  Preventing heart disease is easy and simple. The hard part is having the heart to do these simple steps daily. But if you value your heart and your life, you might reconsider your daily habits or way of living and consider the simple steps below to preventing heart disease.
  
  
• Pulmonary Heart Disease
  Pulmonary heart disease is a rare form of heart disease. In fact, a person can acquire it only if he were suffering from a chronic lung disease. It is hard to pinpoint this heart disease at an early stage for it appears only after the lung disease has grown worse.
  
  
• Reversing Heart Disease
  Reversing heart disease is something that can be done, in many cases, through some simple changes in lifestyle. It is funny that all it takes are some little changes to reverse the effects of this deadly disease, and yet many fail to do it.
  
  
• Recognizing Heart Attack Symptoms
  Recognizing the symptoms of a heart attack is the first line of defense in surviving one. The sooner a heart attack victim can get to the emergency room the greater their chance of survival.
  
  
• Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
  Rheumatic fever is rare in the United States and other in other industrialized nations. About 3% of people with untreated group A streptococcal pharyngitis develop rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease remain a significant public health problem in many developing countries. There have been recent outbreaks in the United States in recent years because of outbreaks of highly virulent strains of group A streptococci.