Healthy Heart
Congenital Heart Disease, All The Parents Should Know About
June 28, 2011 | 
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Structural abnormalities of the heart that causes a hole in the septum of heart or commonly known as leaky heart including Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) that affects many children.
The process of formation of the fetal heart occurs in the early days of fertilization (conception), even before the mother realized she was pregnant. Heart formation has been perfect at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy.
In the case of leaky heart, dirty blood circulation flow to the clean blood circulation so that the baby becomes blue. If too many dirty blood circulating to the clean blood circulation and get into the vital organs like the brain, there can be shortness of breath, accompanied by seizures, even death.
There are two types of CHD, the blue CHD (cyanotic) and not blue CHD (acyanotic). Cyanotic can be easily recognized that the ends of the nails, lips and tongue became blue. While the acyanotic symptoms are not directly visible.
Usually CHD suspected if the child became easy to get sick, his weight does not rise-up, hard to drink milk, or easy fatigue. Congenital heart defects should be early detected. This can be done with regular checkups during pregnancy, especially to know the baby’s heartbeat is normal or not. Parents also need to be suspicious if the child has symptoms such as easily hurt, easily tired and thin body. Read the rest of this entry »
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Watch Your Blood Pressure From Hypertension, Young Man!
Heart and blood vessels are considered the number one killer in the world often begins from hypertension or high blood pressure. To that end, hypertension should be avoided.
Hypertension, including the disease which kills silently because people generally do not realize he was exposed to hypertension before their blood pressure checked.
High blood pressure is a condition where a person’s blood pressure above normal limits, it’s above 120 mmHg for systolic blood pressure (when the heart pumps blood into the arteries), and 80 mmHg diastolic (blood pressure when the heart expands or relaxation).
Prolonged increase in blood pressure would damage the blood vessels in most of the body. In some organs like the heart, kidneys, brain, and eyes will be damaged. Damage to a number of organs that can cause cardiovascular problems (a series of disorders that attack the heart and blood vessels), including heart attacks and strokes.
The older a person the higher the risk for hypertension because the blood vessels more rigid so that the systolic pressure is high. However, hypertension also affects many young people, less than 30 years. Usually the main risk factors are diet, lifestyle and a menu that is consumed. In addition to consuming foods that contain lots of fat and high cholesterol, as well as fast food that is increasingly popular. Read the rest of this entry »
Heart Children’s Threatening
In 1967, Kawasaki Tomisaku doctors find a mysterious disease that attacks Japanese children. Starting a high fever, a disease that until now the cause is unknown this can damage the coronary arteries to lead to death.
Since the first day of Grace hit a high fever in 2005, his mother, Asui (40), leads directly to a specialist child Grace. Grace who was then aged 6.5 years by doctors diagnosed a virus and then given a drug.
The next day, the higher the fever Grace. Both eyes and lips reddened. His tongue was red and rough spots such as strawberries. On the whole body appears red blotches like measles.
When the doctor suspects Grace Kawasaki disease and suggested that Grace was hospitalized. However, until 10 days later, doctors have not dared to declare, Grace hit by kawasaki.
“When all the ends of fingers and toes to peel my son, I ask the firmness of a doctor. From the information I was looking on the internet, I’m sure Grace was hit by Kawasaki. Apparently right after I consult another doctor, “said Asui.
Asui not too late to bring Grace to the doctor, but doctors are hesitant to diagnose precisely Grace. Since the new diagnosis is made after the expiration of 10 days, the disease has damaged heart arteries Grace.
Although the case was first discovered in Japan, does not mean other countries in the world free of Kawasaki disease. According to cardiologist son, Najib Advani, steeped in Kawasaki disease, non-communicable diseases are common in people of Mongolian race, such as Japan, China, and Korea.
In the United States and European countries, are generally affected offspring also Kawasaki Japan, China, or Korea. “My patient is 60 percent ethnic Chinese and the rest from various ethnicities,” said Najib.
As many as 80 percent of Kawasaki cases occur in children under five, especially those aged 1-2 years, the age most susceptible to kawasaki. Read the rest of this entry »
Heart Attacks In The Morning Affects More Fatal
Heart attacks that occur in the morning affects more fatal than events in other times, such as day or night. The reason, heart attacks that occur between the hours of 6:00 am to noon will destroy more of the heart tissue.
Experts reveal the body’s biological clock for 24 hours a significant influence on the impact of heart attacks. During these events are more heart attacks occur in the morning when the people wake up from sleep. It is not yet known how the impact of time on the degree of severity of heart attacks.
To find out, Dr.Borja Ibanez and his team from Spain analyzed data from 811 patients in the hospital suffering from the type of heart attack that lasted a long time so that blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked. The patients were divided into four groups based on the time of the attack.
The result is known group of patients who have a heart attack in the morning until noon is the most severe disease group.
The morning group had cardiac enzyme markers of tissue death in the highest blood compared with patients who had a heart attack in the afternoon (around 6 pm until the evening).
Based on the assessment levels of enzymes that the researchers suspect a damaged heart area five times wider than the patients of the afternoon.
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High Cholesterol, You Should Know About
Cholesterol is a fatty material famous as a lipid. The bulk of the cholesterol in our bodies is fabricated by the liver. Cholesterol is, in item, essential to the regular functioning of the body and, divergent to what more may assume, we want a certain allotment of cholesterol to retain healthy.
Cholesterol is employed by the body to make up the exterior stratum of every cell in the body and to insulate mettle fibres. It is in addition employed to make hormones and the bile acids which we want to digest and imbibe fats.
Cholesterol is brought around the life-force by atoms famous as lipoproteins. The two principle lipoproteins are LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol and HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. LDL cholesterol makes up the bulk of cholesterol in the life-force and is often famous as ‘bad’ cholesterol because it can source a build-up of adverse bank deposits when there is too much cholesterol in your life-force for the cubicles to use. So, at best, we like worse stages of LDL.
HDL cholesterol is often called ‘good’ cholesterol as it aids the body in disposing of the cholesterol in our life-force stream by conveying it back to the liver which either breaks it down or source it to be passed from the body as waste. So, at best, we like higher stages of HDL.
Another sort of cholesterol is VLDL (very small density lipoprotein) which aids to disseminate triglycerides (a sort of fat encountered in the blood) through the life-force stream. A certain allotment of VLDL in addition converts to LDL. Unlike LDL and HDL, VLDL cholesterol stages are not evaluated right away but assessed supported on the assessment of triglyceride stages in the blood.
This is the justification why a life-force investigate that evaluates cholesterol stages, also includes a measurement for triglycerides. High cholesterol, then, is a higher than regular stage of HDL, or ‘bad’ cholesterol, often aggregated with a worse than regular stage of LDL, or ‘good’, cholesterol and a high stage of triglycerides.
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