BeldarBlog: Beldar Gets Lucky Long story short I had a wee little heart attack this week, but I m amazinglyokay amazingly soon afterwards, and I m very glad to be home after a short http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2005/07/beldar_gets_luc.html
Extractions: hostName = '.beldar.org'; Main It started with a burrito and a jalape±o last Sunday night that turned out not to have caused indigestion. Long story short: I had a wee little heart attack this week, but I'm amazingly okay amazingly soon afterwards, and I'm very glad to be home after a short hospitalization. The modest pain â a dull ache located not under my sternum, but high on my chest wall, almost over to my left shoulder joint â was not at all the "classical presentation" for heart trouble. I had some sweating, but no nausea or referred/radiated pain elsewhere, and no shortness of breath. However, I've got a strong confluence of pretty much all of the risk factors for coronary artery disease, and I had been promising myself for at least the last 15 of my 47 years that "pretty soon" I was actually going to develop some better habits to reduce some of my risks. I expected that when and if it came time to pay the piper, I'd know it without any doubts, because a heart attack is supposed to feel like an elephant is sitting on the middle of one's chest. And this pain didn't feel like that, and didn't appear to be related to exertion, and went away overnight. So I blamed the burrito.
Extractions: Web posted at: 5:07 p.m. EST (2207 GMT) From staff and wire reports LOS ANGELES (CNN) People who have suffered a heart attack should be vaccinated each year against the flu because it will greatly reduce the risk of a second heart attack, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Extractions: Heart attack is the popular term for sudden pain in chest with breathing difficulty arising out of certain heart conditions. Heart attacks can be suddenly fatal, but the great majority- an estimated 85 percent are not. The patient recovers under proper treatment and goes on to live many useful years. Like all muscles and organs of the body, the heart also needs nourishment and food which it gets thorough its own arterial system. The arteries, which supply blood to the heart muscle, may lead to impairment of its function. The sudden narrowing of the artery may result in the sudden stoppage of blood supply to the heart muscle. Such attacks of narrowing of arteries are called angina. If the damage takes place it is called infarction. Infarction can also occur because of a blood clot, big enough to interfere with blood supply, is formed in the coronary artery. This formation of blood clot is called trombosis and the clot itself is known a thrombus. The term coronary heart disease is usually applied to diseases of the heart secondary to defective or interrupted supply of blood to the heart muscles through the coronary arteries.
USATODAY.com - Most Heart Attacks Caused By An Unhealthy Lifestyle Two sweeping studies out today may explode the longheld myth that half of heartattacks result from bad genes or bad luck. The studies indicate that http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-08-19-heart-riskfactors_x.htm
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Extractions: Advanced Search familydoctor.org Home Conditions A to Z Heart Attack What is a heart attack? How do I know if I'm having a heart attack? What should I do If I think I am having a heart attack? How can I avoid having a heart attack? Printer-friendly version Email this article A heart attack (also called myocardial infarction) is when part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it isn't receiving oxygen. Oxygen is carried to the heart by the arteries (blood vessels). Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage in these arteries. Usually the blockage is caused by atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of fatty deposits (called plaque) inside the artery. This buildup is like the gunk that builds up in a drainpipe and slows the flow of water. Heart attacks can also be caused by a blood clot that gets stuck in a narrow part of an artery to the heart. Clots are more likely to form where atherosclerosis has made an artery more narrow. Return to top How do I know if I'm having a heart attack?
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HEART ATTACK Unlike a true heart attack the pain usually is better when resting. Often the first remedy to use, especially if the heart attack has been brought http://www.simillimum.com/FirstAid/TheFirstResponder/FirstAidin/HeartAttack.html
Extractions: THE HOMOEOPATHIC FIRST RESPONDER Back to Homoeopathic First Responder HEART ATTACK Angina pectoris is a dull pain felt in the center of the chest that may radiate down the left arm and up into the neck and jaw. accompanied by dizziness, nausea, sweating, and difficult breathing. These symptoms are usually worse < on exertion and by excitement. Unlike a true "heart attack" the pain usually is better > when resting. Angina is caused by arteriosclerosis that has diminished the flow of blood to the muscle. A heart attacks occur when the heart muscle itself has been damaged by a lack of oxygen. This usually happens when one of the arteries leading to the heart is block by a blood clot (coronary thrombosis). This results in cardiac infarction, which is the dead of part of the heart muscles. The victim usually experiences pain in the center of the chest that radiates down both of the arms and into the neck and jaw, breathlessness, dizziness, sweats, chills and nausea. The pain are sometimes described as being crushing, agonizing, bursting or viselike. In severe case the individual will stop breathing, collapse and loss consciousness. The action taken in the first 3 minutes may make the difference between life and death. Apply CPR immediately (refer) and call the emergency. When the patient begins to breath place the individual in recovery position and give a remedy for asphyxia as needed. Materia Medica ACONITE (3).
The Page You Are Trying To Access Has Been Deleted. A metaanalysis of epidemiologic Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates secondhand smoke causes heart attack, atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular problems. http://216.185.112.5/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3172
ANXIETY HITS WOMEN HARDER AFTER HEART ATTACK AFTER heart attack. By Aaron Levin, Staff Writer Health Behavior News Service.A heart attack can make anyone anxious, but women experience greater anxiety http://www.hbns.org/news/anxiety08-06-03.cfm
Extractions: Health Behavior News Service A heart attack can make anyone anxious, but women experience greater anxiety than men do after heart attacks, a pattern that is consistent across four continents, a new study notes. The higher level of anxiety among women is not connected to geography, to demographic factors like marital status and education or to medical condition, according to a report published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine Moser says that difference was enough to see variations between men and women in the medical complications they experienced. And, she notes, that relationship held regardless of where patients lived. This finding confirmed earlier studies that showed no wide cross-cultural differences in the presence of depression and anxiety disorders. However, the researchers also found that both men and women under age 60 reported higher levels of anxiety than those older than 60. The study was supported by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau Research Grant, the Bennett-Puritan AACN Mentorship; Sigma Theta Tau; and the Pacific Rim Grant.
Prehypertension Triples Heart Attack Risk People with prehypertension are at much higher risk of heart attack and heart disease. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/aha-pth080305.php
Extractions: American Heart Association DALLAS, Aug. 5 People with prehypertension are at much higher risk of heart attack and heart disease, according to a study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. "If we were to eliminate prehypertension, we could potentially prevent about 47 percent of all heart attacks," said the study's lead author Adnan I. Qureshi, M.D., professor and director of the Cerebrovascular Program in the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. Normal blood pressure is lower than 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Prehypertension is systolic blood pressure between 120 and 139 and/or diastolic pressure between 80 and 89 mm Hg. (Systolic pressure is the force in the arteries when the heart beats and diastolic pressure is the force when the heart is at rest.) Hypertension is blood pressure 140/90 mm Hg or higher. "There is a gray zone, where you are not hypertensive but your blood pressure is not normal either," he said.
Antidepressants Lessen Risk Of Heart Attack, Stanford Researcher Says The use of antidepressants in patients who have suffered a heart attack appearsto reduce the risk of recurrent events and cardiac death, according to a http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-07/sumc-alr063005.php
Extractions: Stanford University Medical Center STANFORD, Calif. - The use of antidepressants in patients who have suffered a heart attack appears to reduce the risk of recurrent events and cardiac death, according to a large, multi-center study conducted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The findings suggest that post-heart attack patients who suffer from depression should talk with their physicians about taking the medication. "Our study provides much stronger evidence than we've ever had before that antidepressants are safe and may benefit these patients," said C. Barr Taylor, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and lead author of the paper published in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death, major morbidity and disability in the United States, is often linked with depression: according to past studies, 20 percent of patients with coronary heart disease suffer from major depression and 20 percent from minor depression. Studies have also shown that depression among post-heart attack patients is associated with death and recurrent heart attacks. Researchers launched the ENRICHD (ENhancing Recovery In Coronary Heart Disease) study to determine whether cognitive behavioral therapy would impact mortality and morbidity in post-heart attack patients with depression. Following publication of their findings that cognitive therapy significantly reduced depression but had little effect on mortality rates, the researchers conducted a secondary analysis on the use of antidepressants among the study participants.
CNN - Study: Passive Smoke An Even Greater Risk - May 19, 1997 New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in nonsmokers. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/19/nfm.passive.smoke/index.html
Extractions: Web posted at: 10:37 p.m. EDT (0237 GMT) From Correspondent Linda Ciampa DALLAS (CNN) New research provides some of the strongest evidence yet that constant exposure to passive smoke nearly doubles the risk of heart attack and death in non-smokers. The study, published in this week's American Heart Association's journal Circulation, finds that non-smoking women who were regularly exposed to passive smoke either in their workplaces or in their homes had a 91 percent higher risk of heart attack or death than those who were not subjected to smoke. For those who had only occasional exposure to smoke, the increase was 58 percent, the study concludes. The 10-year investigation of more than 32,000 women found a higher level of risk from passive smoking than has been seen before. A study published last August found non-smoking spouses of smokers had about a 20 percent higher death rate from heart disease than non-smokers living with spouses who did not smoke. "The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart," Dr. Ichiro Kawachi of the Harvard School of Public Health said. "It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack."
After Your Heart Attack A heart attack occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle,become blocked This is a heart attack. Damage to the heart may be slight, http://staff.washington.edu/bmperra/heart_help.html
Extractions: What Information do You WANT to Know? A heart attack occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle, become blocked. Blood carries oxygen to the heart muscle. When the blood flow is stopped or slowed down, the muscle does not receive the oxygen it needs, and pain, called angina, occurs. If the flow of blood and oxygen are stopped long enough, some of the heart muscle will die. This is a heart attack. Damage to the heart may be slight, with little impact in the ability of the heart to function. A "massive" heart attack significantly reduces the ability of the heart muscle to pump. It may also effect the functioning of the valves in the heart. Typical symptoms include chest tightness, burning or pressure. Often this discomfort is also felt in the left shoulder, left arm and hand, and sometimes in the neck and/or jaw. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, sweating, dizziness, and skin that is cold to the touch. Somtimes symptoms are not typical, and include shortness of breath and fatigue. What Do I NEED to Know for My Safety and Well-Being Recognize YOUR symptoms of heart pain, they may not be the same as other peoples
