Simon says asked:


My friend had a major heart attack(she’s 39 yrs old)-and actually “died” 3 x -she had been smoking crack the night before-she is an addict trying to stay clean thru NA ( like me -only Ive been clean 5 yrs and never did use crack) I dont know a whole lot about how crack affects the body.What would happen if she were to relapse again?

Erik

Brenda Wade asked:


A condition where the oxygen and the blood supply is restricted to the heart, if left untreated results in heart attacks. It may also ultimately lead to death. You can also prevent the recovery of a heart attack by:

Taking your medications regularly.

These medicines are prescribed to prevent blood clots and lower the levels of cholesterol. Change your lifestyle to some extent like you need to quit smoking immediately as it has high risks of heart attacks. Eat a low fat and low cholesterol diet that will reduce the amount of fat in your blood. Control the levels of your blood pressure and diabetes by having a healthy diet, exercising regularly, medicines, and controlling the amount of salt and sugar in your diet. High blood pressure damages the lining of the arteries and leads to heart complications.

Control your stress and anger by learning many different skills like time management, yoga, or relaxation to lower your stress. Use these skills effectively at times to control you stress or anger that may otherwise lead to heart attack. You can also enroll yourself and participate in the cardiac rehabilitation programs, wherein you can learn the different techniques to avoid or control your stress and anger and what to do in case of emergencies. Avoid sex for the first 2 weeks as you are at a greater risk of heart related problems during sex. This risk becomes less after 6 weeks. There are exercises that help to prevent the heart attacks by reducing stress, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and excess weight. It is recommended to exercise at least half an hour a day. This should include jogging, cycling, walking, swimming, etc. you can even go for exercise machines like simulated skiers, stair climbers or elliptical cross trainers. Even yoga exercises are found very helpful to prevent the evidence of heart attacks. Exercises make your heart stronger, but make sure that you do not over exercise. Weight lifting in particular can trigger a heart attack. It is always better to consult your doctor before you start you exercise program. Once you face a heart attack, you need to try hard to try to prevent it from occurring the next time. For this, you need to keep your heart healthy and minimize the risks to prevent future damages to the heart.

You need to take proper care so that it does occur again the next time. Use this article as a guideline to help you in the process. Number of people surviving a heart attack have recovered completely and are leading productive lives.

Marie

Groshan Fabiola asked:


During heart attack one might feel dizzy although is not a common symptom it has been observed at some people with heart attack. Heart attacks are more often in the morning because of the amounts of adrenaline in the blood. Too much adrenaline in the blood may determine formation of clot and rupture of plaque. Cardiac pain is dull, vague and has been described as pressure, fullness, squeezing and other sensation of discomfort. Studies have shown that heart attacks are more frequent in winter, diabetic people have silent heart attacks which means that there is no pain in the chest.

Symptoms

If you feel an intense and suffocating pain in the chest for more than 15 minutes and doesn’t stop at nitroglycerin it means that you are having a heart attack. It is indicated to take aspirin and drink water that helps the heart getting more blood if you are having a heart attack indeed. Sometimes the heart attack symptoms may act as an indigestion with a sensation of fainting and pain in the middle of the abdomen.

Silent heart attacks

Silent heart attacks are the most dangerous ones because people don’t know what’s happening they consider it’s only a state of moment and forget soon about the discomfort and indisposition felt and do not announce a doctor which has a vital risk. Silent heart attacks are those attacks that have no warning symptoms or signs, or may appear atypical signs such as: nausea, sweating, headache and dizziness. Silent heart attacks are common in people older than 65 years and diabetics and women.

American Heart Association and other experts suggest that we should pay attention to the following signals: pain, squeezing, fullness in the center of the heart, pain radiating in the shoulder and arms, burning, pressure, heavy weight. Other symptoms may be: fainting, nausea, sweating, shortness of breath, anxiety, irregular heart rate, pallor, anxiety, nervousness. If you notice any of these symptoms you should address immediately to the emergency medical services at 911 or begin the CPR.

The doctor will diagnose the heart attack after studying several tests: EKG a device that gives the graphical record of the heart’s electrical activity, a physical examination and knowing the complete medical history of the patient, high enzymes in the blood appear in heart attack, those steps are also helpfull. Cardiac enzymes may be determined later in the intensive care unit and urgent care setting so they confirm or infirm the suspicions of heart attack.

Often heart attack is slowly with mild pain and the person in cause doesn’t understand what’s happening, on the other hand the heart attack might be intense and movie-like. The most common signs are: chest discomfort which may be felt as pain, pressure, squeezing, fullness and which may last for minutes. Other symptoms are: pain in both arms, neck, stomach, back, shortness of breath, nausea, cold sweating.

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Evelyn

Nathan Wei asked:


A recent study has shown that the use of a combination of a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor along with methotrexate therapy in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was associated with a reduction in heart attack risk of 80 percent compared with patients using methotrexate alone, according to research presented recently at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, Mass.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic, autoimmune disease that not only causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and limitation of function in joints, but also damages internal organs as well.

Approximately, 2.1 million Americans are afflicted with RA, most of them women. As mentioned above, while joints are the principal areas affected by RA, inflammation can develop in other organs as well. Heart attacks, resulting from inflammation of the coronary vessels, are more common in RA sufferers.

Researchers recently studied the risk of heart attack in patients using a TNF-inhibitor (a drug that blocks cytokines and can turn off the chronic inflammation that causes destruction in RA), methotrexate (a drug used to treat RA by blocking the metabolism of cells) and other disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), which are a category of drugs used in RA to slow down the disease progression, in a large population of patients with RA-many of whom were also taking aspirin.

Using information obtained from MediCal, California’s Medicaid program, researchers studied patients over the age of 18, suffering from RA, who were treated with TNF-inhibitors, methotrexate, or other DMARDs, over a six-and-a-half year period.

A total of 19,233 patients with RA were identified. The patients’ mean age was 55 years.

Approximately 79 percent were women. Of these patients, 13,383 took methotrexate; 14,958 took other DMARDS; and 4,943 took TNF-inhibitors. Exposure of one group of patients to TNF-inhibitors (taken alone or in combination with methotrexate) was compared to that of the other group taking methotrexate alone.

During the study period, 441 patients suffered heart attacks, of which eight percent were fatal.

Researchers found that patients on a combination of TNF-inhibitors with methotrexate treatment had a heart attack risk of only 20 percent of the risk compared to patients taking methotrexate alone.

However, there was no statistical difference seen among patients who were taking TNF-inhibitors alone, TNF-inhibitors with other DMARDs, other DMARD therapies without methotrexate, or a combination of DMARDs and methotrexate. Therefore, this reduction in cardiovascular events appears to be a function of the combination of methotrexate and TNF-inhibitors.

“TNF-inhibitor therapy, in combination with methotrexate, dramatically reduces the risk of heart attacks in patients with RA and should be seriously considered- especially in high-risk patients,” said Gurkirpal Singh, MD, clinical professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and an investigator in the study.

The notion that RA is a potentially crippling disorder is widely accepted. However, what is not generally known is that it is a potentially lethal disease leading to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

It is imperative that patients with RA understand the systemic nature of this condition and the need for aggressive intervention. This study lends more ammunition to the argument that patients with RA need to be treated with a combination of methotrexate and biologic therapy to not only reduce the chances for crippling deformity but also to reduce the likelihood of cardiovascular death.

Holly

Groshan Fabiola asked:


Older people are usually those predisposed to heart attack. However, studies have shown that other people as well can suffer from a heart attack, even when they are younger.

South Asia is one of the places where heart attack is at ” home” . People who where born here are more at risk of having a heart attack. The risk is furthermore increased by diabetes and by smoking at a very fragile age. It is true that this part of the world accounts for almost a quarter of the population, but when compared with other regions of the world, this has the highest numbers of deaths from heart attack. Furthermore, it is also the leading region of cardiovascular problems, that eventually lead to heart attack. Deaths linked to heart attack happen five to ten years earlier in this part of the world than in other countries. All this information has made many people wonder what is the cause of heart attack in this region. Clearly, the traditional factors of risk of a heart attack do not apply here, because the number of deaths is higher than in all other regions. So, studies have been made to see what actually makes those people be more at risk of having a heart attack, but not many things have been

revealed.

All those studies have shown that age of a heart attack is much lower in South Asia then in all other regions. Furthermore, people that live here do not drink more alcohol or eat more fatty foods than people living in other regions. So then why are they more exposed to heart attack? Well, an answer may be history itself. In South Asia, there are many people that have diabetes history in their family or hypertension or some other conditions that lead to a heart attack.

So could this be the answer? Unfortunately, no one knows for sure why these people are more at risk of having a heart attack, but since the only thing that was different from all the other people, was the history of risk factors, then this could be the reason. More and more studies have been made and there are a lot of people that will not end until they uncover this mistery. However, what is known for a fact is that in this region, young people are more at risk of having a heart attack than older ones.

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Joshua

Andrew Bicknell asked:


Chest pain is the most common heart attack sign but it is important to understand that there are different kinds of chest pain. Many people with coronary artery disease suffer from angina pectoris which is chest pain or discomfort when the heart is not receiving enough blood. It normally occurs when the heart is working harder, such as during exercise or physical activity, but goes away when the activity is stopped.

The chest pain associated with a heart attack can occur at any time, most notably in the morning, and is of long duration and continuous. People with a history of angina may experience more frequent anginal attacks in the weeks or days before they have a heart attack.

The chest pain is often described as severe, as if something was crushing the heart attack victim’s chest; a heavy, squeezing or extreme pressure sensation. Some people have described it as a tightness of the chest or burning sensation. The pain itself usually begins in the center of the chest. Then it can radiate outwards and affect the shoulders, neck, jaw, or arms. These chest pains will last 15 to minutes and are not relieved by resting or taking nitroglycerin.

The signs of a heart attack for women and older adults can be different. Often their symptoms present as atypical chest pains. This means it feels more like indigestion or heartburn and can include nausea and vomiting. Women are more likely than men to have a silent or unrecognized heart attack. For women they will also experience shortness of breath and fatigue and weakness of the shoulders and upper arms.

Older adults will often seek medical attention for a variety of symptoms including difficulty breathing, confusion, fainting, dizziness, abdominal pain or cough. They often think they are having a stroke when in fact they are suffering a heart attack.

Other symptoms that occur during a heart attack are responses to the damage that the heart is undergoing during the attack. Anxiety, tachycardia (rapid heart beat), and vasoconstriction (narrowing of the blood vessels) occur in response to sympathetic nervous system stimulation. This results in cool, clammy, mottled skin. The respiratory center of the brain responds to pain and blood chemistry changes by increasing respiration rate. Death of heart tissue causes inflammation that causes an increase in white blood cells and an elevation in temperature.

Depending of the location and amount of infracted (dead) heart tissue other signs of heart can include high blood pressure, low blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, or bradycardia (slow heart rate). Irritation of the diaphragm can cause the hiccups as well. In extreme cases the first sign of a heart attack is a sudden death. This is particularly likely in the event that a major blood vessel is completely blocked.

It is utmost importance to seek medical attention at the first signs of heart attack. The sooner a heart attack victim receives medical attention the better their chances of survival.

Clarence

Angel_love asked:


my dad was going to china from singapore. when he got inside the plane his said his heart felt weird. then he got off,sensing something wrong. then after a few tests, the doctrs confirmed that he got a mild heart attack. he is smoker, and finally now is determined to quit. i am worried however, that he would just stop completely instead of just cutting down on cigarretes slowly. i have heard of many cases where people die from stopping smoking immediately. is it completely safe to do so?

Terry

Anna Hart asked:


Coronary heart disease, in its various forms, is the number one killer in the United States. One way that it kills is heart attack. Most of us have seen a movie or television show in which someone has a dramatic heart attack. The actor clasps the chest, and falls to the floor in pain. The message is clear: he or she had a heart attack. Such a theatrical show of heart attack is not always present in real life, however. According to the American Heart Association, most heart attacks start slowly. If you know the signs, you can get help before they reach the dramatic point.

What Are 3 Signs of a Heart Attack That You Should Know?

Not everyone who has a heart attack will experience the same symptoms. It has been learned that men and women can have very different signs. There is enough similarity, however, that anyone, male or female, who has one of the basic three signs of a heart attack, should seek medical help immediately.

What are the three signs of a heart attack that should make you call for help?

1. Chest Discomfort: In most cases, a heart attack involves pain or some form of discomfort in the center of your chest. The feeling of distress usually lasts more than 2 or 3 minutes. It may stop temporarily, and then return as before. Heart attack discomfort can be experienced in various ways. It may be pressure that makes you uncomfortable. You may feel as though someone is squeezing your chest inside. Some patients say that it feels like the chest is too full, while others simply say it is pain.

2. Other Discomfort: In some heart attacks, the chest discomfort is accompanied by similar feelings in one or both arms. There may be pain in the back or stomach. Pain may also extend to the neck or jaw. The discomfort of heart attack is usually limited to the upper body.

3. Breathing Trouble: A heart attack victim is likely to have trouble breathing. This sign may be present whether or not there is chest discomfort.

Any of those three signs of heart attack should send you to a doctor. It may not be heart attack, but you should have it checked immediately.

Additional signs of heart attack might include lightheadedness, nausea, or a cold sweat.

First 5 Minutes of a Heart Attack

Time is of the essence in a heart attack! It is important to take action quickly if you are to save the person’s life. If that person is you, seek medical help immediately.

Some people decide unwisely to wait until they are sure they are having a heart attack. Often, they wait too long before getting help.

Call 911, or your country’s emergency number, within the first 5 minutes of heart attack symptoms! Do not wait longer than 5 minutes! If you cannot get emergency services within 5 minutes, have someone drive you to the hospital’s emergency room as quickly as possible.

It is important to get medical help quickly. Normally, 911 is the best way to get rapid life-saving care. Ambulance staff can take action the moment they arrive. They can take action to keep your heart beating - and can often revive you if your heart has stopped. Finally, those who arrive at the hospital by ambulance usually receive faster treatment for heart attack than those who arrive by car - as much as an hour faster!

No Embarrassment

What are 3 signs of a heart attack? Those given above.

What is 1 sign that you may be acting unwisely? Waiting.

Doctors stress that there is no embarrassment in seeking medical help for a heart attack and learning that it was not that at all. Doctors and nurses would much rather you acted quickly on a false alarm than that you waited when the heart attack was real.

Learn the three signs of a heart attack - especially if you have any heart disease or risks for such. If you experience any of them, seek help.

Disclaimer: The author is not a physician, and shares this research for educational purposes only. Please ask your physician for more information on heart attack.

Renee

frederickwiddowson asked:


I am an early 50’s athletic individual who takes cholesterol lowering meds as I have a history of high cholesterol and a family history of heart attack. This morning I got real dizzy and my left arm felt a certain numbness. And yet, my pulse rate is between 64 and 76 which is my normal range. Hence, my question.

Mathew

Alien asked:


If you experience any signs or symptoms of a heart attack, do not hesitate. Get medical help immediately. Every minute is important in a heart attack situation. Always keep emergency phone numbers in a convenient location near the telephone so no time will be wasted. Your local emergency medical service (EMS) for an ambulance to take you to the hospital.

Medical treatment, including clot-dissolving medicine, can save your life and reduce damage to the heart muscle, but only if treatment begins very soon after a heart attack occurs. Waiting, even if only for fifteen minutes, can result in damage to the heart muscle that could have been avoided with immediate treatment. EMS teams can begin administering care from the moment they arrive.

What If Someone Else Has Warning Signs?

It is very common for people to deny that they are having a heart attack. Often people think the pain and discomfort is indigestion and will go away. It is frightening for most people to admit that they may be having a heart attack. Almost anyone with a family member who has suffered from a heart attack will tell you that the family member’s initial reaction was to deny or to minimize the seriousness of the symptoms.

Early care is critical to survival. Every second counts. The sooner a person who is having a heart attack arrives at the hospital, the better the chances are that he or she will live. Know the signs and symptoms of a heart attack, and when you see someone experience them, get that person to advanced health care as soon as possible. They may try to tell you they don’t need to see a doctor, but don’t take no for an answer. It’s always better to be safe. Your efforts can make the difference between life and death.

Your Emergency Response Can Save a Life

You can make a difference in the event of a cardiac emergency if you have some basic training. Organizations such as the American Heart Association and American Red Cross offer training for laypeople. Each year, thousands of lives are saved by people who learned CPR and how to use automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and who were able to respond quickly to emergency situations.

A tragic incident occurred at a law firm during their annual holiday party. One of the attorneys collapsed from a heart attack in the midst of the festivities. None of the partygoers knew CPR. Although emergency assistance arrived, he died. Perhaps his life could have been saved if someone had taken emergency training. After the event, the firm initiated an internal CPR training program for its staff. It was an unfortunate case of learning a lesson the hard way.

Raymond