Heart+Disease-+Krischan+Guerra

Heart disease is the narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart.
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**Inheritance: ** If your family has a history of heart disease, you are at a higher risk of receiving it. It all depends on your health and your family’s health.

**Symptoms: ** Chest pain is the most common symptom. Your heart will feel heavy or as if someone is squeezing your heart. The pain occurs during activity or emotional moments. Also, you will have shortness in breath and fatigue during activity.

**Daily Life: ** These people can not participate in heavy or long activity. If someone begins to have a sudden and heavy emotion it will be cut short with pain in the chest.

**Diagnosis: ** A doctor will go through various tests, with the person to see if they are infected. They take stress test, tilt table test, CT heart scan, EKG, and many more.

**Treatment: ** Your blood pressure must be less than or equal to 140/90. LDL cholesterol level less than 100 mg/dL. ACE inhibitors or Aspirin, may help. Nirates can stop chest pain, and statins lower cholesterol.

**Research: ** To prevent heart disease you got to keep your blood pressure low. You must not smoke. Daily exercise will help keep you clean of the disease. Avoiding stress is another big help in staying heart disease free.

**Additional Facts: ** More thasn one in every 4 Americans die of heart disease. Coronary heart disease is the most common heart disease. In 2010 heart disease related research, and bills cost the U.S. $316.4 billion.

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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|www.inheritedhealth.com/condition/cardiac_disease/177] **

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