03/03/2025
👉HEART PROBLEMS
📌Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Diseases under the heart disease umbrella include blood vessel diseases, such as coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias); and heart defects you're born with (congenital heart defects), among others.
The term "heart disease" is often used interchangeably with the term "cardiovascular disease." Cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other heart conditions, such as those that affect your heart's muscle, valves or rhythm, also are considered forms of heart disease.
Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle choices.
SYMPTOMS
Heart disease symptoms depend on what type of heart disease you have.
Symptoms of heart disease in your blood vessels (atherosclerotic disease)
Cardiovascular disease is caused by narrowed, blocked or stiffened blood vessels that prevent your heart, brain or other parts of your body from receiving enough blood. Cardiovascular disease symptoms may be different for men and women. For instance, men are more likely to have chest pain; women are more likely to have symptoms such as shortness of breath, nausea and extreme fatigue.
Symptoms can include:
📌Chest pain (angina)
📌Shortness of breath
📌Pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in your legs or arms if the blood vessels in those parts of your body are narrowed
📌Pain in the neck, jaw, throat, upper abdomen or back
👉Heart disease symptoms caused by abnormal heartbeats (heart arrhythmias)
A heart arrhythmia is an abnormal heartbeat. Your heart may beat too quickly, too slowly or irregularly. Heart arrhythmia symptoms can include:
📌Fluttering in your chest
📌Racing heartbeat (tachycardia)
📌Slow heartbeat (bradycardia)
📌Chest pain or discomfort
📌Shortness of breath
📌Lightheadedness
📌Dizziness
📌Fainting (syncope) or near fainting
❗ WHY YOU NEED TO CARE FOR YOUR HEART
Your heart is roughly the size of a fist and sits in the middle of your chest, slightly to the left.
It’s the muscle at the centre of your circulation system. It pumps blood around your body as your heart beats. This blood sends oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body, and carries away unwanted carbon dioxide and waste products.
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