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Types of Heart Disease

Article Review   by:nugraha666    
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There are several known cardiovascular disease. If heart disease was experienced since childhood, usually it is called congenital heart disease. Congenital heart defects such as leaking bulkhead chambers of the heart, heart valve problem that can usually be improved with increasing age of the child. There was also because of misplaced.

There are also heart disease caused by complications of diphtheria infection in children, where the germs diphtheria toxin that can interfere with heart function.

In addition, there are heart problems in the form of a heart infection, caused by germs and viruses. The most common heart valve. The infected valve was damaged so the function becomes abnormal heart valve. If the damage is severe and prolonged, could end up with heart failure.

Not only that, heart valve abnormalities due to infection, due to fat droplets and residual infection of the valves can be washed away whole and regardless of blood flow. Hanyutnya granules of fat and the rest of this infection could be implicated in brain blood vessels, and can cause a stroke.

There is another heart disease due to severe anemia and if left for long time will burden the heart. Solanya, due to the lack of grains of red blood means less oxygen is also acceptable, so it is not sufficient for the body. To meet the body's need for oxygen, the heart needs to work harder. If it lasts a long time, the heart will also be tired and swollen.

Heart disease is a form of heart trouble or heart failure, which occurs when high blood pressure is not treated in a long time. This resulted in the heart must work harder, thus making the heart muscle gradually thicken and the heart was swollen. To some extent the heart can not grow anymore, so there was the so-called heart failure.

There is also a heart disease that can result from too active thyroid gland. Where the higher thyroid hormone in the blood, the more powerful heartbeat because blood pressure rises. When blood pressure is elevated in thyroid disease is left unchecked, the heart swells and can cause heart trouble.

And the most common or current is coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD occurs when the coronary arteries becomes blocked so that blood flow to the heart is stuck. The blockage comes from the coronary vessel wall itself is already filled with fatty deposits (atherosclerosis), or due to granules of fat, blood clot from outside the heart.
Published: July 06, 2011   
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