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Heart disease is very common which increases the risk for cardiac emergencies like a cardiac arrest or heart attack, so it's important to recognize the factors that put you at risk. There are both controllable and uncontrollable risk factors. High cholesterol and high blood pressure (HBP) are the major risk factors, but fortunately, are controllable. On the other hand, risk factors, such as advancing age, or a family history are beyond your control. But working on your controllable risk factors (managing them) can be as (if not more) beneficial in reducing your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. We are rounding up some heart-healthy habits that you can adopt: Perform Regular Exercise - Experts recommend 30 minutes of daily exercise that increases your heart rate, so find an activity that fits your lifestyle and make it a part of your daily routine. Don't go for strenuous physical activities without consulting with your doctor. Also, thirty minutes of exercis...

Whenever the conversation about affect of weight on heart arises, we veer towards obesity, and rightfully so since we’ve all heard that being overweight is bad for our heart. But being severely underweight is just as bad. Heart disease is a common complication among Americans, and even a cause of death in individuals with anorexia. How weight impacts the heart? Increased body weight causes high blood pressure (HBP) (a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke and sudden cardiac death). Increased body weight is also associated with high cholesterol (“bad” cholesterol) and low HDL (“good” cholesterol), which plays a key role in cardiovascular disease. Obesity makes it more likely to get diabetes (another major heart disease risk factor). In addition to everything, fat cells, especially those in the abdominal area are active metabolically that causes inflammation in your body, which can be measured by the amount of C-reactive protein in your blood — another risk factor for heart ...

A heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI) occurs when blood flow to your ticker is blocked. Blockages in coronary arteries (the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to your ticker) are what causes heart attacks. It is a medical emergency since blocked or reduced blood flow to the ticker damages the heart muscle. The heart muscle will begin to die if blood flow is not restored quickly. Blood clot getting lodged in any artery that has been previously narrowed by a buildup of plaque can reduce blood flow to your ticker or blood flow can become completely cut off. Atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries" is what this buildup is known as. Accumulation of plaque in the arteries leading to your ticker is known as coronary artery disease (CAD) (a major MI risk factor). Heart attack and cardiac arrest are often used interchangeably, but they are different since cardiac arrest is caused by an electrical disturbance (ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachyca...