Recognizing Heart Failure

Heart Failure

Every year, millions of people around the world have a heart attack. Not all heart attacks result in death. However, generally every patient who had suffered a heart attack suffered some effects. While the rest can not be helped.


Heart
The heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout the body. In a heart attack (myocardial infarction), part of the heart muscle to die while not getting blood. To stay healthy, the heart needs oxygen and other nutrients carried by blood. This is obtained through the artery (blood vessel) disease, which wrap the outside of the heart.


Heart Failure

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These diseases can affect any part of the heart. However, the most common disease is a chronic disease in the coronary arteries is called atherosclerosis. Therefore, heart disease commonly known and most common is coronary heart disease or coronary artery disease. The disease is most common cause of heart attack in someone who can cause death. The cause is narrowing of the coronary arteries, where the vessel serves to provide blood to the heart muscle. Narrowing caused by a stack of cholesterol or other proteins from the food that enters the body. This buildup causes the coronary arteries become stiff. Stiffness is called atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis occurs when there is accumulation of plaque or fatty deposits on artery walls. Over time, plaque can build up, harden and narrow arteries and block blood flow to the heart. Coronary artery disease or coronary artery disease (CAD) is that basically leads to most heart attacks.

Blockage in one or more coronary arteries can cause heart attack suddenly. The reason for the heart for oxygen exceeds that available to trigger a heart attack. Why? If the heart muscle does not receive oxygen for a long time, the surrounding tissue can be damaged. Unlike other tissues, the heart muscle does not regenerate. The longer the attack, the more damage to the heart and the more likely to die.

Even in the arteries that are not too narrow because of plaque and fatty timbungan, the accumulation of plaque can break off and form a crust of blood or thrombus. In addition, the diseased arteries are also likely to experience sudden muscle contractions. Thus, a piece of crust in the blood can form a contraction, releasing chemicals that later resulted in narrowing the artery wall, triggering a heart attack.

If the working system of the heart is damaged, the heart's normal rhythm can become chaotic and the heart began to tremble with uncertainty or fibrillate. This abnormal rhythm known as arrhythmia is a deviation from normal heart rhythm. This will cause the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively to the brain. Within ten minutes, brain death and the patient was beyond help.

In addition to coronary heart disease due to fat deposition in the arterial wall, there are also other heart diseases caused by abnormalities at birth. For example, an imperfect heart, abnormal heart valves, heart muscle weakness. Another cause is the bacteria that cause infections of the heart.

Did you know about the health

Have you ever felt food tastes good, do everything feels passionate and fun activities? If so, then at that moment you are in good health. How nice if we're healthy, right? Conversely, do you ever feel the whole body weakness, aches, fatigue, and fever, so we are not able to perform all activities as well.

Definition of Health
The term healthy in everyday life is often used to tell that something can work normally. Even inanimate objects such as vehicles or any machinery, if it can function normally. Often the owner said that the vehicle is in good condition. And most people say well if the body feels refreshed and comfortable. Even a doctor would be declared healthy patients, while the results of examinations conducted by it to get the whole body of the patient to function normally. However, understanding that good health is not really like it.

Understanding of current health are bigger and dynamic, compared to the previous limit. This means that a person's health is not only measured by the physical, mental, and social, but also of productivity measured in terms of having a job or produce anything economically.

For those who have not got a job, teens, or for those who are not working (retirement) or old age, the true meaning of the social productive. For example, socio-economic productive for students is to achieve good performance, being productive socio-economic benefits to of advanced age or retired people is to have social and religious activities are worthwhile, not only for himself, but also for other people or society.

These four dimensions of health affect each other in realizing the health of a person, group or community. That is why, it contains four comprehensive health aspects. Embodiment of each of these aspects in a person's health include the following:

1. Physical Health
Physical health forms if anyone did not feel something, to complain of pain or no complaints and no pain objectively. All organs to function normally or not impaired.

2. Mental Health
Mental health or mental health includes three components, is the mind, emotional, and spiritual. A healthy mind is reflected in the way of thinking. Emotional health is reflected in one's ability to express emotions. example is the fear, joy, sadness and etc.

Spiritual health is reflected in the way of expressing one's gratitude, praise, trust and etc, to something beyond this mortal nature, that Almighty God. For example, spiritual health can be seen from the devout religious person. In other words, spiritual health is a situations where a person is absent and all the rules of their religion.

3. Social Health
Social health is formed when a person is able to relate with other people or groups who are different as well, without distinction, ethnicity, religion or belief, social status, economic, political, and etc, as well as mutual tolerance and respect for others.

4. Health Economics
Sense when viewed from the economic aspect of visible when a person (adult) productive, in the sense of having activities that produce something that can contribute to his own or his family financially. For those who are not yet mature (student) and elderly (retired), by itself this restriction does not apply.

Due to that, for the group, which is a productive social force, which has activities that are useful for their later life, such as students achievement, and social activities, religious, or other social services for the elderly.