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Cardiovascular disease increases the risk for life-threatening cardiac emergencies, such as a cardiac arrest, heart attack, etc. The major risk factors include high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Managing health behaviors and risk factors, such as diet quality, physical activity, smoking, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, total cholesterol or blood glucose is the key to lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, also called coronary artery disease (CAD). But you would most probably not know which risk factors you have. To know about your risk factors, you need to visit your healthcare provider who may conduct or request screening tests during regular visits. If you’ve been diagnosed with a cardiovascular condition such as heart failure or atrial fibrillation, or if you have a history of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular events, you’ll probably require additional and more frequent testing. Your doctor may order more stringent screening even if you haven’t ...

In coronary or heart bypass surgery, the surgeon uses a blood vessel from the leg, arm or chest to bypass a narrowed section of a coronary artery. The surgery can relieve chest pain. A doctor suggests a bypass operation to individuals who’ve been diagnosed with coronary heart disease or angina- that helps improve the blood supply to your heart muscle which helps to relieve angina symptoms and improve the quality of life. Bypass Surgery: The main aim of coronary bypass surgery is to bypass or “get around” the narrowed sections of the coronary arteries that get narrowed when fatty deposits build up on their inner walls. The surgeon grafts a blood vessel between the aorta (the main blood vessel leaving the ticker) and a point along the coronary artery, past the area that’s narrowed. Mostly, at least one of the blood vessels used as a bypass graft is an artery from the chest, known as internal mammary artery. For other grafts, blood vessels like a vein from your legs and sometimes ...

Atrial flutter is a problem when the atria of the ticker beats rapidly and regularly due to an anomaly of the ticker’s electrical system that usually results in a tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate). An individual with the condition may get feelings like near-fainting, rapid heartbeats (palpitations), mild shortness of breath and fatigue. During atrial flutter, the ticker beats extra fast about 250-400 beats per minute. This type of arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) can be dangerous because complications can easily develop, and a normal heartbeat is 60-100 beats per minute. Atrial fibrillation is another arrhythmia that atrial flutter is closely related to. Atrial Flutter Types : 1.       Persistent atrial flutter which is more or less permanent. 2.       Paroxysmal atrial flutter which can come and go. An atrial flutter episode usually lasts hours or days. Risks: The main danger is that your ticker doesn’t p...