Preventable Heart Disease: Coronary Artery Disease

In Falcon’s report “Heart Disease” he anatomically describes the heart as “a fist sized organ located in the lower left quarter of the chest…[consisting] of four chambers: the right and left atria on top and the right and left ventricles at the bottom” (Falcon). While the heart is one of the smaller organs in the body, it has an enormous and important job to do; deliver nutrient carrying blood to the tissues in the human body. In people with heart disease, the heart is impeded and cannot efficiently deliver nutrients and oxygen to structures such as our muscles or our brain. This is one of the reasons that heart disease is so deadly; when our body structures are deprived of necessary nutrients, they begin to breakdown. The term “heart disease” encompasses a wide variety of

Now, let's talk how the heart works. The heart is divided into two halfs. Each side has a upper and a lower chamber. The upper right chamber revives poor-oxygen blood from the body. The lower right chamber pumps

Heart Disease, also known as Cardiovascular Disease is abnormal function of the heart or blood vessels. There are many different types of heart disease. “Heart Disease” is just a word that describes the many other conditions and diseases there is that can affect our heart. The causes of heart disease are stressing, eating too much fatty foods, stressing, drinking a lot of alcohol, and not being active. Coronary Heart Disease is the leading heart disease in the United States. Coronary arties surround the heart and provides the heart with the energy and oxygen it needs (Lehnardt, 2016). Almost 2,500 Americans die before they can get to the hospital. You can prevent heart disease.

Cardiovascular disease better known as heart disease is a condition that most have heard of and have been affected by in some way. Although the majority of people have heard the name of this condition, many still don't know what it means to be diagnosed with heart disease or even how to avoid it. Cardiovascular disease is a broad name for many different types of this condition, specifics include cardiac arrest, arrhythmia, stroke, peripheral artery disease and even more, all of these conditions are caused by heart complications or heart disease. An upwards of sixteen million people suffer from heart disease today and there are more than three million cases of coronary artery disease (the most common form of heart disease in the U.S) each year

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a type of cardiovascular disease that may be referred to by several other names such as: coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis, or simply heart disease, and is a pathological condition where plaque (a waxy substance) has accumulated over time in the coronary arteries and has built up to the point where it reduces oxygenated blood flow to the heart (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 2016).

Several factors contribute to heart disease, there is no doubt about that. However, there are too many factors that contribute to heart disease. In, other words, medicine has not pinpointed factors that are more likely to contribute to heart disease—we don’t even know exactly what causes heart disease. Even then, there are still several factors that are being overlooked, or aren’t deemed as important.

The heart has four chambers, left and right atrium, left and right ventricle (Texas Heart Institute, 2015). Each chamber has a specific job and works together to pump blood throughout the entire body. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the inferior and superior vena cava and sends it through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle which then sends the blood to the lungs via pulmonary artery (Texas Heart Institute, 2015). Once in the lungs, the blood becomes oxygenated, returns to the heart via pulmonary veins into the left atrium and goes through the mitral valve to the left ventricle (Texas Heart Institute, 2015). The left ventricle is responsible for forcefully pushing the blood into the aorta so it can get to the rest of the body (Martini & Nath,

Coronary artery diseases (CAD) as a kind of cardiovascular diseases are considered to be the major causes of morbidity and mortality in type 2 diabetic patients (Buse JB et al, 2007) (Stolar MW & Chilton RJ, 2003).

The heart is one of the most important vital organs to sustain life in the human body. The heart is a muscle pumping organ that generates two different types of circulatory loops within the human body. These include the Pulmonary Circulation and the Systemic Circulation. The Pulmonary arteries brings blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs where then the blood picks up oxygen and returns to the left side of the heart. The pumping chambers that support the pulmonary circulation are the right atrium and left ventricle. The systemic circulation carries oxygenated blood from the left side of the heart to all of the tissues of the body. It removes wastes from the body tissues and returns deoxygenated blood to the right side of the

Coronary artery bypasses surgery, percutaneous angioplasty-stent, aspirin use, cholesterol-lowering therapies, and increased awareness of coronary artery disease prevention are the main strategies for the preventive treatment of SCD [166]. As the main etiology behind coronary artery ischemia is the plaque rupture, methods to prevent plaque rupture, plaque stabilization, decreasing plaque formation and searching risk markers for sudden plaque rupture should be discovered. The role of cholesterol in SCD have been studied in many studies and there are both kind of results, some suggesting its significant role [39, 167] while other without any significant role [83].Low density lipoprotein (LDL) plays a significant role in atheroma formation

The heart is one of the body’s most vital organ, it pumps blood throughout the body specifically organs and tissues that need oxygen and nutrients that the heart carries. It also helps to remove waste products we do not need. If the heart does not work properly multiple organs would not be able to function.

The heart is a large muscular organ and its main job is to circulate blood all around the body. The heart consists of three outer layers: the pericardium is the tough outer protective layer, the myocardium which is the middle muscular layer and then finally the endocardium which is a smooth membrane lining. The heart has four chambers within it. The left/right atria and the left/right ventricles. Between these chambers there are valves which control the blood flow between the chambers. The blood flows through the heart from right to left- The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from both the superior (top half of body) and the inferior

We have learned that the heart is a complex muscle that pumps blood throughout the body for the purposes of tissue oxygenation and gas exchange (waste removal). We must now discuss the four separate chambers of the heart through which this blood flows through. To start, the two upper, or superior chambers are known as the atria, and the two lower, or inferior chambers are known as the ventricles. These four chambers can further be separated into left and right half’s. Each half contains a superior pumping chamber – the atria, and an inferior pumping chamber – the ventricles. Each of these chambers have an important and specific job to perform during the circulatory process.

Heart Disease is a disease that affects the heart’s functions and is incurable. There are several types of Heart Disease including Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiomyopathy, Arrhythmia, and Coronary Valve Disease. Heart Disease begins with inflammation and irritation of the inner lining of the coronary arteries and over time, cholesterol in the bloodstream can collect in the inflamed areas and begin the formation of a plaque (Werdo, n.d.). This plaque grows and as it does, the diameter of the artery narrows decreasing blood flow enough to potentially cause the symptoms of angina (Werdo, n.d.). Being labeled the leading cause for death in both men and women, heart disease will be the cause of death in one in four people (CDC, 20115). Heart disease is also the leading cause of death in ethnic people to include African Americans, Hispanics, and Native American in the United State (CDC, 2015).

In order to move blood and wastes the heart acts as a double sided pump creating a never ending circuit. The right side receives deoxygenated blood from the body and forces it into the lungs so that it can become oxygenated. While the left side is precisely the opposite as it receives the blood that was sent to the lungs by the right and pushes it to the body so that our tissues such as muscles can obtain oxygen. If you think about it the heart is like a fast food chain, the right side obtains the food from the lungs and the left