Heart Disease In Women

Dr. Shyla High is to provide with all the useful information which would help in understanding Heart disease. As quoted by Helen Keller the American author who lost her eyesight at a green age “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

Heart the key muscular organ in the circulatory system has four chambers: namely auricles and ventricles (each two in number). It is located near the left part of the chest. An average human heart takes about 72 beats in a minute and is of magnitude of your fist. It weighs around 250-300 grams in females. It's foremost function is to pump blood rich in oxygen throughout each and every cell of the body. Heart disease is the mainly refers to any disease and condition of the heart problems , symptoms of heart disease in women causes a myriad of heart attacks from chest pain in women to heart failure.

Cardiovascular diseases in women :-
As the name says it is the ailment caused by the heart or the blood vessels.The major ground of such diseases is HTN that is high blood pressure or ASVD in which the cholesterol deposits in the blood arteries. Their number has ascended by far in women in modern times.Additional rationale may be excessive drinking, smoking, obesity, high sugar, depression, menopause, stress, lack of exercise, junk diet, pollution or even the family history.

•    Symptom pain in chest which may or may not be severe

•    Headache or fatigue

•    Dizziness

•    Vomiting or nausea

•    Difficulty in breathing

•    Pain in the shoulder or left part of body

Types of heart diseases in women : -

No more the ailment is constrained till the man it has taken women too in its clutches. From past one decade 8000 women aged 35-54 died of heart disease which is too high. Few diseases are as follows- Coronary Artery Disease or CAD which is caused as an conclusion of deposition of fats or cholesterol in the walls of arteries which confine the supply of myocardium with oxygen and nutrients. Heart Failure is inability of heart to  disperse blood to the body. Stroke causes loss of brain function due to back flow of blood. Hypertensive Heart Disease which is caused due to high blood pressure can even lead to death. Cardiomyopathy is ailment in the cardiac muscles which gradually lead to heart failure. Chest Pain in women or Angina is the medical term referring to chest pain which is caused in women due to lack of blood flow.

All you wonderful women are meant to have an amazing life! You are the foremost to wake up and last to sleep in your family Shield your HEART live happy healthy.