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The War Of Cardiovascular Disease

The War on Cardiovascular Disease


Like many other complications dealing with the human body, cardiovascular disease is happening as we speak and a heart attack can strike at any time. Though some do not have great insight on the dangers involved with their daily lives, there are ways in which one can be aware and alert at all times. It would be to ones advantage to know about the heart, the causes of cardiovascular disease, and how to prevent a heart attack. It is confusing to understand why we as a society allow certain things such as food or smoking take advantage of our bodies with the harm and risks that are involved. It makes absolutely no sense on the number of people that we lose each year because of cardiovascular disease. Something must be done in order to preserve the human society. The one organ that mankind needs to survive is the heart.
Myocardium also known as the heart is a muscular pump about the size of a human fist which is located at the left center of your chest between the lungs. Surrounding the heart is a thin sac called the Pericardium. The pericardium consists of an inner and an outer layer. Normally a small amount of fluid fills the space between the heart and the Pericardium. Some conditions cause excess fluids to develop in the pericardial sac. If large amounts of fluids accumulate then it can push on the walls of the heart, making it hard for the heart to expand and take in blood. This is also known as cardiac temponde, and can diminish the effective pumping function of the heart. Inflammation of the pericardium is a condition that can cause severe chest pain. In bad cases it can cause a hard thickening to the pericardium and surgery will be needed to remove the pericardium. The heart pumps blood into many tubes which are known as arteries but mainly into the aorta and pulmonary arteries. The coronary arteries supply the heart muscle itself with blood branches off directly from the aorta. Veins return blood to the heart. The...