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Heart Stopping Experience Can Soon Become Fatal

  Heart Stopping Experience Can Soon Become Fatal When something goes wrong with one’s heart, it commands immediate and undivided attention. Time is of the essence as I recently discovered . It was another stressful day when I checked my blood pressure on my home blood pressure monitor. That morning the numbers ran 170/108. The systolic number (the top) was elevated once again and the extremely high diastolic number (bottom) explained the screeching noise reverberating in my ears. What Happens When a Heart Goes Awry? Normal blood pressure ranges from about 119/ 79 but can vary about 20 points in either direction. It’s important to maintain a normal blood pressure since elevated blood pressure indicates that the force of the blood pumping against the heart’s artery walls is too strong. Over time, this leads to heart disease, damaged arteries, damaged kidneys or possible strokes. I’d been trying to reduce my high BP numbers for months and even with trying different medications, noth...

Diet chart for heart patients

Diet chart for heart patients – Basic Nutritional Guide for Preventing Heart Diseases Heart diseases can be prevented nutritionally. Learn how diets with low glycemic load, l-arginine, magnesium and coq10 can prevent heart diseases & sudden deaths. Heart  diseases often become chronic conditions that lead to impairment in physical activity and active life.  Sudden death is often the first and only warning of a cardiovascular problem. Sudden death accounts for 33 percent of deaths from cardiovascular problems. Both chronic problems and sudden  deaths can be prevented by taking nutritional measures to  maintain proper cardiovascular health. Heart Diseases   If heart disease is not reversed or adequately controlled, then it can become a chronic problem that impairs your ability to engage in physical activities.  These chronic heart diseases are  typically due to fixed angina pectoris.   Fixed angina is also called effort angina or classical ...

Angina and Heart Attacks

Angina and Heart Attacks: Men who experience Angina, felt as tightening, choking or dull pain in the central chest on exertion – should see their doctors early because this could be a warning sign of an impending heart attack Medical Advice Heart Diseases, unfortunately, are among the commonest causes of death in men – often cutting down folk in the prime of life. Each year, heart attacks kill menfolk long before they reach even the bibliocally allotted span of three score years – and the sad fact is that many of these deaths are preventable. Heart attacks occur if blood flow to part of the heart muscle suddenly gets cut off – usually because a blood clot gets stuck inside one of the narrowed coronary arteries that carry blood to the heart. Angina, aptly termed “a cry for help from the heart”, describes the initial cramping central chest pain originating from the heart when it doesn’t receive enough oxygen-carrying blood. Typically felt as a dull pain, a choking sensation or ...