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Preventing and treating the most common cardiovascular disease

Preventing and treating the most common cardiovascular disease

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Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 05/05/2022

heart problems cause the death of millions of people a year. Currently, in the Western world there are three“epidemics&rdquo ;: the heart disease ischemic ( coronary heart disease ), the fi brillation headset (the most common arrhythmia that we find in clinical practice ) and heart failure ( due to different cardiac pathologies as they evolve ). Also diseases of heart valves ( valvular ) -especially calci fi senile degeneration of the valve aortica- are becoming more frequent.

The causes of these diseases are, above all, track an unhealthy lifestyle. These bad habits have led, for example, the large increase in ischemic heart disease. Smoking, suffer hypertension ( especially if poorly controlled ) have the cholesterol high and lack of physical exercise foster the emergence and development of these disorders. In the case of atrial fibrillation fi, is increasing for these factors and also because it is a arrhythmia that increases in prevalence with age, and the age of the population is increasing.

Treatment

Logically each pathology has a speci fi c treatment. In some cases it is necessary to go through the OR and not others. Say, when one of the coronary arteries this“obstructed” and gives symptoms, it may“ unclog” by performing catheterization (angioplasty ) and stent placement if necessary. Although sometimes it requires a surgical intervention with the placement of coronary bypass.

At other times, the person must take medication based drugs as in the case of atrial fibrillation fi, which is usually treated with antirritmicas medicines and blood thinners to prevent stroke. The inadequacies heart failure also is usually controlled with drugs and sometimes can be used pacemaker or des fi defibrillators implantable special to help pump the sick heart.

Prevention

In any case, to keep the heart and arteries in good condition, it is essential to follow a Diet balances, make overweight control, monitor hipercolesterolomia ( if we have ), keep track of the arterial hypertension and as the first factor to keep in mind: make an absolute smoking cessation

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Cardiology