Intro
A heart is the most vital organ and has the most function over the human body. It pumps blood throughout the body through your circulatory system, supply oxygen required for your body and nutrients to the tissues and remove carbon dioxide and other toxic wastes from your whole body system. If you like to know more about heart and its anatomy, functions or how it looks and other facts you may simply search about the topic over the internet and you will get thousands of result to enrich your knowledge.
But today we will not discuss those matters, we only focus on the reasons behind the heart attack and for that, you have to know some common symptoms and signs of it. Now, the question must arise in your mind what is a heart attack and how will distinguish when it occurs to you and someone nearest to you.
Generally, a heart attack happens when the stream of blood to the heart is blocked. The blockage is most often buildup due to regularly development of fat, cholesterol, and different substances, which shape a plaque in the corridors that feed the heart coronary supply routes. Sometimes a heart attack is also known as myocardial infarction.
Signs & Symptoms
The plaque, in the end, splits away and forms a clot. The interrupted bloodstream can harm or pulverize some portion of the heart muscle.
Here some common signs and symptoms you will find during a heart attack,
I. Lightheadedness or instant dizziness
II. Chest distress or agony feeling
III. Fatigue and nausea
IV. Indigestion or heartburn
V. Shortness of breath
VI. Some may face abdominal pain
Factors and causes
Age is a major factor in consideration with a heart attack. Men over 45 and women over 55 are at high risk. Another factor lies within the lifestyle of a person and habit of smoking, consumption of alcohol and overweight or obesity plays a major role in causing a heart attack. Other conditions or diseases like high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol or triglyceride levels, diabetes etc. may enhance the chance of heart attack.
And, actually, symptoms may vary from person to person. A few people have gentle agony; others have progressively serious torment. A few people have no manifestations; for other people, the main sign might be sudden heart failure. Be that as it may, the more signs and side effects you have, the more noteworthy the probability you’re showing at least a bit of kindness assault. Some heart assaults strike abruptly, however numerous individuals have cautioning signs and side effects hours, days or weeks ahead of time.
As you know that, a heart attack happens when at least one of your coronary arteries end up blocked. After some time, a coronary course can limit from the development of different substances, including cholesterol (atherosclerosis). In this time the condition rises known as coronary artery disease which may cause most heart attacks. In the middle of a heart attack, one of these plaques can break and spill cholesterol and different substances into the circulatory system. A blood clot reforms at the site of the break. On the off chance that sufficiently vast, the clot can hinder the stream of blood through the coronary course, keeping the heart muscle from oxygen and supplements (ischemia).
Another reason for a heart attack is a contraction of a coronary artery or a supply route that closes down bloodstream to part of the heart muscle. Utilizing tobacco and unlawful medications, for example, cocaine, heroin etc. drugs can cause a hazardous contraction of your cardiac muscles as mentioned before.
Conclusion
We will discuss different treatments and other methods used to reduce the chance of heart attack and/or low the risk of heart attack later but ASAP! Till then, stay healthy and be positive.