Heart disease increase from year to year, and become top killer in most of the country. We need to have some knowledge on heart disease symptoms and heart disease prevention. The common symptoms of heart diseases are chest pain, breathlessness and palpitations.

World Health Organization (WHO) Report

An estimated 17.5 million people died from Cardiovascular diseases CVDs in 2005, representing 30% of all global deaths. Of these deaths, an estimated 7.6 million were due to coronary heart disease and 5.7 million were due to stroke.

Chest pain
acute chest pain or discomfort is a common presenting symptom of cardiovascular diseases and must be differentiated from non-cardiac causes. The site of pain, its character, radiation and associated symptoms will often point to the cause.

Dyspnoea
Dyspnoea is an awareness of the sensation of breathing. Left heart failure is the most common cardiac cause of exertional dyspnoea.

Orthopnoea
this is a form of breathlessness that occurs on lying flat as a result of gravitational redistribution of blood leading to increased pulmonary blood volume. Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea occurs when there is an accumulation of fluid in the lungs at night causing the patient to awake suddenly from sleep.

Palpitations
A palpitations is an awareness of the heartbeat. the normal heartbeat is sensed when the patient is anxious, excited, exercising or lying on the left side. in order circumstances it usually indicates a cardiac arrhythmia, commonly ectopic beats or a paroxysmal tachycardia.

Heart disease prevention tips 

*Don’t smoke - This is the single most important thing you can do for your heart.

*Have your blood pressure checked periodically.

*Watch your cholesterol levels.

*If you have diabetes, it should be treated and controlled.

*Eat a healthy, low-fat diet and pay attention to your weight.

*Keep your body mass index number - an indicator of total body fat, based on a ratio between weight and height - at less than 25

*Maintain a waist measurement of 35 inches or less.

*Report chest, arm, throat, shoulder blade or jaw discomfort that comes on with exercise and goes away with rest.

*If you are in 40s, 50s or 60s and experience shortness of breath, report it to your doctor.

*If a close relative - a sibling or a parent had early heart disease (in or before the 50s or 60s for, respectively, a man or a woman), your chance of heart problem is doubled, so you must work hard to reduce other risk factors.

Try to learn how to eat healthy and change the life style to prevent any heart disease and other common diseases happen on you. Your future health start from your today action.

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