Heart Disease Prevention
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Coronary heart disease (CHD), also known as coronary artery disease (CAD) and Atherosclerosis heart disease, and Arteriosclerosis, is a disease affecting the walls blood vessel. This disease may be one of the most easily preventable diseases of the modern civilization in the 40 to 70 age group. It is characterized by the thickening and hardening of the Artie’s. This loss of elastically and narrowing of the Artie’s can lead to high blood pressure and if left untreated, increases the chance of a stroke and a heart attack. Coronary heart disease typically begins in early adolescence but is rarely diagnosed until late in life usually after to a stroke or heart attack. Early diagnosis and treatment can stop the progression of Coronary heart disease and prevent a medical emergency. Causes of Coronary Heart Disease include obesity, smoking, high blood, diabetes, and lack of physical activities, menopause in women, advance age (65 or older), and some types of infections of the artery walls. Males are more prone to this disease than women.
Symptoms leading to coronary heart
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