Heart disease treatment and Causes

 Heart disease treatment and Causes

Treatment for cardiovascular disease varies greatly by condition and severity.

Common treatment for cardiovascular disease include:
1.Lifestyle modification
2.Medication and
3.medical procedures  

Lifestyle modification:
These are often the first steps for managing heart disease. Changes in lifestyle include :

• Eating a heart-healthy diet low in sodium and fat, 
• Exercising regularly, 
• Quitting smoking and 
• Reduce and manage stress
• Keep cholesterol under control.
• Practice good hygiene
• Limiting the use of alcohol.
• Maintain a healthy body weight for your height.

Medication: 

When changes in lifestyle are not enough, then your doctor may prescribe medicines for the treatment of heart disease. The type of prescribed medication will depend on the condition and severity.

 medication commonly used in the treatment of heart disease may include:

ACE inhibitors:

Angiotensin Converting Enzymes (ACE) inhibitors are a medication that extends or spread your blood vessels that increase blood volume to your heart pumps and reduce your blood pressure.

Angiotension II receptor blockers:

These cardiovascular medicines reduce some chemicals which narrow down the blood vessels. This allows the blood to flow more easily through your body.

 These medicines also reduce chemicals which produce salt and fluid in the body.

Anticoglantants or blood thinners :

It reduces the clotting ability of the blood, are used to treat the condition of some blood vessels, heart and heart rhythm. 

These medicines help prevent harmful blood clots forming in the blood vessels.

Beta-blockers:

It works by slowing the heart rate and reducing the effects of adrenaline on the heart. It helps in reducing blood pressure so that the heart has to work less.

Calcium channel blockers :

It inhibits calcium movement in blood vessels and heart cells. This drug can reduce the pumping power of the heart and relax blood vessels.

Digitalis:

If you have a heart disease, then it is a medicine that helps in working more effectively in a wounded or weak heart.

Nitrates:

These medicines help prevent the clot forming, Blood thinners treat some types of heart disease.

Diuretics:

It helps your body get rid of uncontrolled water and salt through urine. This makes it easy to pump your heart. It also helps in controlling your blood pressure.

Antiarrhythmics:

These medicines treat abnormal heart rhythm due to your heart's irregular electrical activity

Medical procedures for treatment of heart disease may include:

Heart surgery is an option for people with heart problems

The most common surgery includes:

Angioplasty:

It is a surgery in which a balloon catheter is inserted to widen the contracted blood vessels, which can limit blood flow to the heart.

Coronary artery bypass surgery:

It allows blood flow to reach the blocked part of the heart in people with blocked arteries

Surgery for repair or replacement of faulty heart valves

Pacemakers:

It is electronic machines that control heartbeat for people with erythema

Radiofrequency ablation :

It is used to treat various types of cardiac rhythm problems when drugs are ineffective.

It consists of a catheter with an electrode in which its nose is directed through the nerves in the heart muscle.

The catheters are placed on the exact site in the heart where the electrical signal stimulates abnormal heart rhythm, and the light radiofrequency spreads on the energy path, which destroys the selected cells in very small areas.

Heart implants are another option:

However, it is often difficult to find a suitable heart of the right size and blood type in the required time.

Causes of Cardiovascular Disease:

Reasons for heart arrhythmia:

General causes of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) or the conditions which can cause arrhythmia include:

• Defects of the heart that you are born with (congenital heart defect)
• coronary artery disease
• high blood pressure
• diabetes
• Smoking
• drug abuse
• Tension
• Excessive use of alcohol or caffeine

Causes of congenital heart defects:

Congenital heart defects usually develop while a child is in the womb. 

Changing the flow of blood in the heart, cardiac impairment can develop due to developing heart after one month of pregnancy. 

Some medical conditions, medicines and genes  can play a role in causing heart defects.

Reasons for Heart Infection:

Heart infection like endocarditis, occurs  when a stimulant such as bacteria, viruses or chemicals reaches your heart muscles. 

The most common causes of heart infection include:

Bacterium

Virus

Parasite

Reasons for valvular heart disease:

There are many reasons for your heart valve diseases. You may be born from valvular disease, or the valve can be damaged by such conditions as:

Rheumatic fever

Infection (Infectious endocarditis)

Connective tissue disorder

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