Healthy artery seem awful lot like healthy muscle. Because they are elastic, strong and flexible. Because the inside of the artery smooth blood can flow through it easily. If there is atherosclerosis, a buildup of vetneerslag in the wall of the arteries. In medicine this is called atherosclerosis. This comes from the Greek is Atheer [...]
Atherosclerosis is caused by several factors. These factors can be influenced, that help to prevent hardening of the arteries occurs. These factors can be influenced over the years. Thus, high blood pressure increase the damage that high cholesterol causes damage. When the right drugs are taken, and less salt is used, less arteriosclerosis entail. Also [...]
Because cholesterol has a strong influence on our health, it is important to regularly measured. This fact has great influence or atherosclerosis will occur later. The coronary disease with angina pectoris / heart attack, stroke and arteriosclerosis obliterans hear this. If you know someone in the family with high cholesterol, heart attack or stroke at [...]
Officially, anyone overweight when the weight of the person 20% above ideal weight. This money is not for someone who is muscular, or someone who is very large. Someone who is muscular, it can weigh a lot, but have little fat. Obesity are not very bad, unless it is accompanied by high cholesterol. In this [...]
Diabetes is a disease where there is a lack of insulin, thus the body can not be fully processed sugars from the diet. By insulin and other medicines, it is possible to treat diabetes. Still, diabetes is a significant risk that needs to be taken to heart disease. If there is an increased blood sugar, [...]
If you have little physical exercise, for example because you sit a lot, this poor condition of the heart failure. The heart is a muscle that needs exercise too, have a good condition. So trains the heart, resilience and stamina. To prevent diseases of coronary arteries is determined that it is good to have exercise. [...]
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Most people who suffer from a (too) high blood pressure have no symptoms. Even if you’re the doctor, he can not immediately tell whether there is a high blood pressure. This can be determined using a measuring device. Sometimes referred to headache and dizziness are symptoms of high blood pressure. This is just wrong. High [...]
When someone has a normal blood pressure is of course positive. There will be a value of 120/80 mm Hg. This means simply that the pressure of 120mm Hg, a heart while pumping output. Between the battles themselves, the blood pressure 80 mm Hg. Blood pressure is determined by two different factors. The amount of [...]
By increased resistance in the bloodstream is quite possible that high blood pressure occurs. This may be because the vessels are smaller, and therefore the heart must work harder to get enough blood through the body to get. When a repeated 160/95 mm Hg is measured, often by high blood pressure. Allowing the pressure above [...]
The average person has normal blood pressure, which is 120/80 mm Hg. This value means that a maximum pressure of 120 mm when pumped by the heart, and between the two layers at a pressure of 80 mm Hg. Two factors determine the blood pressure in a person’s body. The amount of blood pumped by [...]
High blood pressure is in most cases caused by increased resistance in the bloodstream. This is possible because the blood vessels, in terms of diameter, have narrowed. The heart will have to work harder for the same amount of blood throughout the body to pump water. High blood pressure is often only made when a [...]
When over a period of years, high blood pressure is measured can cause damage throughout the body. This happens only when the hypertension is not treated. For example, a heart attack occur. Also, there is kidney damage, vision loss and stroke occur. Damage to blood vessels. When blood vessels long to work with high blood [...]
The coronary artery is the leading cause of death in the Netherlands. There are about 30,000 people die annually from diseases of the coronary arteries. The disease will never be right, but will develop in years. The effect is very effective. Over 30 percent of all cases without a death warning. The blood vessels that [...]
If an artery is narrowed or closed may prevent a chest pain occurs when there is an effort. This can cause a heart attack. For the physician it is a challenge for coronary artery disease to detect, and reduce the consequences. Unfortunately it is not possible to use a stethoscope to detect a coronary artery [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain from the heart (a tight, band-shaped, tightness, sharp and often suffocating, usually at the breastbone (sternum) and often radiates to the throat or arm). A feeling of heaviness in the chest or cords together. Attacks are usually triggered by exertion or emotional stress. Anxiety. Angina pectoris derives its name from the [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling (edema) of the ankles, bed rest with swelling of the back. Shortness of breath. Weakness and fatigue. Only the term heart failure occurs in most cases not much good in people. They think like a heart attack, while the weakened heart rarely stops pumping. There is loss of efficacy in heart. [...]
Alarming signs and symptoms Severe shortness of breath. Restlessness and fear, fear of suffocation. Pink, frothy sputum. Sweating. Paleness. When the pressure in the pulmonary veins to high pulmonary edema will occur. This pressure will be large amounts of fluid from the veins are compressed, and air sacs of the lungs. This causes the edema [...]
Alarming signs and symptoms Severe, persistent chest pain, often described as a heavy, oppressive feeling. The pain may radiate to the chest from the left shoulder and arm, back, and even teeth and jaws. Persistent pain in the upper abdomen. Shortness of breath. Episodes of fainting. Nausea, vomiting, fainting and sweating may occur. Quick succession [...]
The heart must always pumping. With good or bad weather. When this process gets interrupted, the heart will not be able to pump blood around the body, causing vital organs of oxygen can get stuck. The easiest is to the heart as two pumps. Both of these two pumps are empty spaces which are surrounded [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Palpitations or skipped heart. Attack-wise light-headedness. Discomfort in the chest. Shortness of breath. When the rhythm of your heart is not right, this is called palpitations. Also, this is called an arrhythmia. It depends which tachycardia originated, only then can the correct signs are given. It may be that you know [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Shortness of breath and fatigue. Alarming signs Extremely short of breath and weakness. Loss of consciousness, convulsions. Electrical pulses from the sinus node controlling heart rate. The pacemaker cells will continue to send electrical pulses through the two atria. The muscular walls of the atria will be pulling them together. From [...]
Signs and symptoms Immediately bewus thinner loss without demonstrable cause. There is no pulse to feel. Most people are terrified to have a heart attack. It is the biggest killer of middle-aged men. It is also five times more common in women than moons. Medicine today is not how it is possible how the heart [...]
The heart of man has four bedrooms, four valves. Two of these valves allow blood from the upper chambers to the other ventricle is pumped. The other two valves allow the blood to other parts of the body is brindle. The valves ensure that blood can eat only one side, and not against the current [...]
Signs and symptoms Primary (two of the following signs must be present for the diagnosis): Heart inflammation (carditis), sometimes noticeably by weakness and breathlessness. Arthritis from one to another joint about. Involuntary movements of limbs and face (chorea). Swollen red spots on the skin. Bumps under the skin (subcutaneous nodules). Secondary (the presence of a [...]
Signs and symptoms Fever. Unusual tiredness and loss of appetite. Heart murmur. Night sweats, chills. On the inside of the four bedrooms, sitting endocardium. This is a membrane that covers the room. An infection of the endocardium can occur when the heart has a soft place, so that bacteria can reproduce. If you have a [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Shortness of breath, especially after exertion. Rapid fatigue. Frequent episodes of bronchitis. Discomfort in the chest or heart palpitations. The left side of the chamber is connected to the ventricle below it through the mitral valve. When the opening of the mitral valve narrows, the passage of the blood go stiffer. [...]
Signs and symptoms None. Short periods of rapid heartbeat (palpitations). Chest pain. Shortness of breath. Easily fatigued. On the left side of the heart, the upper cavity, also called the atrium, the ventricle below it connected by the mitral valve. The mitral valve consists of two slip. The valves allow the passage of blood from [...]
Signs and symptoms None. No physical exertion as possible. Shortness of breath. Chest pain (angina). Fainting. The aortic valve allows blood to is off the main pumping chamber (left ventricle) into the main artery, the aorta, to flow, which in turn the oxygenated blood to smaller and smaller arteries and the tissues of the body [...]
The blood flows from the four areas of the heart valves. In the section above are the most common valve abnormalities discussed the aortic and mitral concerned on the left side of the heart. Rarely also develop abnormalities of the pulmonary and tricuspid valve. The blood flows from the upper chamber, the right atrium through [...]
There are three layers of heart tissue: the epicardium, a thin, very slick coating on the outside, the myocardium, the muscle itself in the middle, and the endocardium, the inner boundary, a very smooth surface that makes contact with the blood into the ventricles . The whole body is on the outside protected by the [...]
Signs and symptoms Short periods of rapid heartbeat (palpitations). Shortness of breath. Weakness. Chest pain. Fainting. Fluid retention (edema). When the heart muscle is damaged or partially damaged, this is called in the medical world cardiomyopathy. This is loosely translated muscle disease. Cardiomyopathy may occur in several forms. Forms of cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy. In dilated [...]
Signs and symptoms Fever. Vague chest pain. Joint pain. Abnormally rapid heartbeat. Shortness of breath. Fluid retention. The heart consists of three layers of heart tissue. The middle of this hot myocardium. The myocardium is the heart muscle. This can distract you from the name. It is Greek for heart muscle. When there is acute [...]
Signs and symptoms Chest pain that radiates to the left of the neck, shoulder, back or upper abdomen. Shortness of breath. Setting up the abdomen. The pericardium is nothing more than the bag where the heart is in it. The inside of the pericardium is very smooth, and the exterior is very sturdy material. Acute [...]
When talking about the vascular system, blood vessels, which meant all the blood flowing. The name is derived from the Latin word vasculum. This means keg. The vascular system consists of two divisions. The first division is small, and starts on the right side of the heart and brings blood to the lungs, and then [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the legs, especially calves and feet that occurs when walking and disappears shortly after stopping the activity (intermittent claudication). At rest, numbness or pain in feet or toes. Ulcers or gangrene of the feet or toes. Arteriosclerosis is that the arteries will change. In most cases this is the first [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the affected area. Pale, cold skin. Numbness. An embolus is a clot or perhaps some fragments of an atherosclerotic plaque that has accumulated losgesloten the place where he belongs. Then he will sit in the way of a blood vessel. A thrombus and an embolus, as many people think, not [...]
Signs and symptoms Often not. Throbbing sensation in the abdomen. When a patient has aneurysm, the artery dilates be. This is not normal, and the weakened wall will be stretched when the blood flows through them. This will create an egg-shaped bulge. An aneurysm can occur in any blood vessel. Similarly, the large vessels of [...]
Signs and symptoms Tenderness and pain in the affected area. Redness and swelling. When a clot in a vein, inflammation associated with this deviation is called thrombophlebitis. The name is derived entirely from Greek. For clot (thrombosis), venous (phleps) and inflammation (itis). Often the name conveniently shortened to phlebitis, as the inflammatory component is small, [...]
Signs and symptoms Dilated veins easily visible under the skin of the legs. Brownish-gray skin discoloration at the ankles. ‘Open leg’ around the ankles. Varicose veins are enlarged veins that are very close to the surface of the housing. Each vein has the potential to be varicose. In the legs and feet are most varicose [...]
Signs and symptoms Fingers and toes turn white when exposed to cold, including a stabbing pain, the skin may be red or blue before it returns to normal. Reinout’s disease, named after the French physician who this disease, more than a century ago, discovered the following changes which occur in the circulation in hands and [...]
Buerger’s disease, named after the American physician Leo Buerger, the symptoms of this disease described in 1908, is a rare disorder where the blood vessels of the hands and feet ill. The skin of hands and feet become brittle and eventually develop pain and ulcers, and possibly amputation. This happens because the blood vessels that [...]
When the skin, including the tissues under it, freeze it mentions freezing. It happens most often at the hands, feet, cheeks, nose and ears. Anyone can suffer from frostbite. This often happens only when someone has a longer period of cold exposure. People who have an abnormality in the blood are more at risk. How [...]