Heart Attcks

Each Year 1.1 Million people in the United States have heart attacks and almost half of them die. Even though heart attacks isn't the end of a person's life, people can still live an active, productive life after a heart attack, because people can live healthier lives and people can go about doing things like before. This disease will take you by surprise all of a sudden. It may be surprising that while many women believe breast cancer is most threatening to them, it is a fact that they are eight times more likely to die of a heart attack. There are many reasons people have heart attacks like smoking, eating an unbalanced diet, and living a sedentary lifestyle. Heart attacks can also be inherited genetically. Heart attacks happen as a result of coronary heart disease, also called coronary artery disease. Coronary heart disease is a condition in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen rich blood to your heart. When this plaque builds up in the arteries, atherosclerosis then happens. Coronary Artery Disease which often leads to a heart attack is by far the leading cause of death of both men and women. Other Names for a heart attack include the name Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Thrombosis and Coronary Occlusion. A Heart attack occurs when blood supply to part of the heart muscle itself is severely reduced or stopped. Plaque build up is one way of causing a heart attack, deposits of fat like substance this is when plaque blocks in artery and eventually bursting, tearing, and even rupturing where in which a blood clot forms and blocks the artery. This is and when a heart attack takes place. But as well there is also soft and vulnerable plaque in which doctors used to believe that the reason for heart attacks and strokes were the buildup of fatty plaque within an artery leading to the heart or the brain. Researchers are now founding out that people who have heart attacks do not have arteries severely