Myocardial Infraction Essay
JoAnne Viviano wrote an article in The Columbus Dispatch entitled, “Take care of your heart, doctors warn, or it can turn on you.” Focusing on educating people about the importance of heart care. Dr. Gary Ansel, a cardiologist at OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, compares the heart to your car’s fuel pump. Dr. Ansel says “Fuel lines can get plugged up with gunk, wires can have abnormalities or shorts.” There are many different issues that without proper heart care can cause heart disease. Issues can include arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, myocardial infraction, and valve problems.
Heart disease is largely preventable when the right steps are taken, however “is the No. 1 killer in America, claiming about 610,000 men and women each year.” …show more content…
Some are unpreventable, as some issues result in poor care. “Myocardial infarction is commonly called a heart attack, a coronary or simply an MI” (Marieb 363) Issues that can lead to a myocardial infraction or heart disease are heart blocks, ischemia, fibrillation, tachycardia, bradycardia and even congestive heart failure. This means that there is an inadequate blood supply flowing to the heart in most cases. (Marieb 365-369) Hypertension is consider to be a “silent killer.” Because the heart is forced to pump against increase resistance. This causes the heart to weaken and it walls to become flabby. (Marieb 388) Hypertension can be genetic. “The child of hypertensive parents is twice as likely to develop high blood pressure as is a child of parents with normal blood pressure.” (Marieb 389) Coronary artery disease is where fatty, calcified deposits develop inside your blood vessels, which is the cause of more than one-half of the death in people over 65. (Marieb …show more content…
The number is overwhelming when you really look at it. People are losing love ones to something that can be a preventable disease with the right actions. My father had a quadruple bypass at the age of 45. He was a very heavy smoker as I was growing up, didn’t exercise and of course ate whatever he wanted. Seeing him growing up, he was always active, so when he was having his heart attack I guess I also thought he was healthy in my eyes. There is more to hearth disease then how someone looks. You can eat healthy and exercise all you want but without annual checkups, a lot of heart related issues can go
Heart disease is largely preventable when the right steps are taken, however “is the No. 1 killer in America, claiming about 610,000 men and women each year.” …show more content…
Some are unpreventable, as some issues result in poor care. “Myocardial infarction is commonly called a heart attack, a coronary or simply an MI” (Marieb 363) Issues that can lead to a myocardial infraction or heart disease are heart blocks, ischemia, fibrillation, tachycardia, bradycardia and even congestive heart failure. This means that there is an inadequate blood supply flowing to the heart in most cases. (Marieb 365-369) Hypertension is consider to be a “silent killer.” Because the heart is forced to pump against increase resistance. This causes the heart to weaken and it walls to become flabby. (Marieb 388) Hypertension can be genetic. “The child of hypertensive parents is twice as likely to develop high blood pressure as is a child of parents with normal blood pressure.” (Marieb 389) Coronary artery disease is where fatty, calcified deposits develop inside your blood vessels, which is the cause of more than one-half of the death in people over 65. (Marieb …show more content…
The number is overwhelming when you really look at it. People are losing love ones to something that can be a preventable disease with the right actions. My father had a quadruple bypass at the age of 45. He was a very heavy smoker as I was growing up, didn’t exercise and of course ate whatever he wanted. Seeing him growing up, he was always active, so when he was having his heart attack I guess I also thought he was healthy in my eyes. There is more to hearth disease then how someone looks. You can eat healthy and exercise all you want but without annual checkups, a lot of heart related issues can go