yankees91594 asked:


i was wondering this because my uncle passed away from a heart attack and i was just kind of wondering what it felt like. Some say that the pain is unbearable, some say it feels like someone is gripping your chest. And one last thing- how is your pulse when you are having a heart attack? And just one more thing- what age can you have a heart attack? Please give me some info on this.
angel, i’m sorry about your dad, but since you didn’t read the whole thing, my uncle DID pass away from a heart attack. I’m 12 years old and i’m sorry, but try to read more carefully

Kim

Sandra Prior asked:


Is your kid always on the move, impatient, highly competitive, calling all the shots, and intent on doing everything to perfection? Do you get the feeling he’s another up-and-coming ‘Doogie Howser?’

The profile is familiar, fitting many adults we may know. Recent studies suggest that such personalities at an early age, some appearing even before the first birthday, may be carrying the seeds of Type-A behavior, which is widely thought to contribute to heart disease. Liveliness and sociability are early harbingers in preschoolers, while perfectionism and competitiveness is more likely to appear between ages 9 – 12. Type-A behavior suggests the potential for – but is not an indelible predictor of – adult disaster.

Continuing impatience, aggression, and perfectionism in the young may call for intervention. Such behavior isn’t all bad, only the impatience and aggressiveness. It wouldn’t be fair to stifle a child, to kill his or her enthusiasm and goal orientation. The intent of corrective measures is to cut off the segments of behavior that could lead to adult Type-A risk for heart disease.

Risk Factor People

The combination of moderate elevations in several risk factors can put you at high risk for heart disease. Some risk factors you can’t do anything about are: growing older, being male, or having a family history of early heart disease. However, if you are a non smoking man of 50 with a 130 blood pressure but a cholesterol level of 335, you have a good chance of getting heart disease in 5 – 10 years time. But if your blood pressure is a moderate 50 and your cholesterol a moderate 225, you are even at higher risk if you smoke. Many Americans tend to dismiss moderately elevated risk factors, which by themselves wouldn’t be so bad, but when combined put them at high risk for a heart attack.

Some considerations for heart health awareness.

1. Make sure your cholesterol level rating has the proper ratio value – HDL cholesterol/total cholesterol. Ask your laboratory for the proper conversion.

2. Your systolic blood pressure should be taken after you have been seated for five minutes. An average of two measurements is preferred.

3. You are considered a non smoker if you have not smoked in the past twelve months.

4. You are diabetic if you have a fasting glucose level of 140.

5. Thickening of the muscle in one of the heart chambers or hypertrophy of the left ventricle can mean sustained high blood pressure.

The average risk levels of the American population indicate a high incidence of heart disease.

Bodybuilding can put you in Charge

Most doctors don’t have time to explain all the breakthroughs in heart disease prevention and treatment to their patients and heart patients to be. Many people simply go without the information that would allow them to take charge of their health while there is still time. Others, however, become educated consumers and cut their risk of heart attack.

It’s worth the effort. Even if a heart attack doesn’t kill you, it severely affects you. Heart attack strips a person of dignity, privacy and the productive life he or she knew. It catches victims in a vice like grip they often cannot break for the rest of their lives.

If you are a healthy, vigorous productive person now, you need not risk the heartbreak of wasted years from heart attack. The bodybuilding lifestyle is the surest defense against heart disease. The bodybuilding lifestyle can equip you with the tools to properly maintain a body that could remain free of life threatening disease. It puts you in charge of your life while there is still time.

Exercise and the Heart

Regular aerobic exercise strengthens your heart, helps you control your weight, lowers your blood pressure, relieves stress and helps you sleep better. How do you know if you’re in your aerobic range? Determine your target heart rate: First, subtract your age from 220 to get your maximum heart rate. Then multiply that figure by 60% and 80% to determine the lower and upper limit of your target range.

Example

220 – 56 (age) = 164 (maximum heart rate)

164 x 60% = 98 (lower limit)

164 x 80% = 131 (upper limit)

Target Heart Range = 98 + 131

It may be best to let a health professional determine the best target range for you. When you exercise your pulse must range between the upper and lower limits – 98 to 131, or whatever your limits are. Choose an aerobic activity that suits you: cycling, running, dancing, swimming, walking, tennis, or circuit weight training. Work out 30 – 60 minutes every day.

Know the Symptoms. See your Doctor

Anyone reduced to congestive heart failure ought to know the symptoms. Fluid accumulates in your tissues and lungs when your heart isn’t pumping blood efficiently. If one flight of stairs leaves you short of breath, tired, weak and unable to continue, see your doctor. If the veins in your neck are swollen, or if you cough up traces of blood, see your doctor.

Vanessa

felix asked:


I am a 62 year old woman and had a heart attack two weeks ago which ended with a femoral angioplasty. I came home from the hospital this weekend and I’m finding it difficult to sleep because I am afraid I may not wake up or I will wake up with another heart attack. I am weepy and emotional for not apparent reason. Can someone who has experienced a heart attack and/or heart surgery tell me if this is common? Should I see a doctor about it or will it go away shortly?

Lois

Groshan Fabiola asked:


Many of the people that suffer from a heart attack, ho one to have chest pains. This is not severe pain, but it can be very, very dangerous if measures are not taken.

People that suffer from a heart attack and then experience chest pains, come to believe that they are having another heart attack. In fact, the condition is more severe then they think. Many of the people that suffer from this condition do not even know what it is. For example, there are many cases of people that were healthy and suffered from a heart attack without even knowing. Then they started to have pain chests and then they went to the hospital. Once admitted, doctors actually discovered that they suffer from a heart attack complication also known as subepicardial aneurysm. This is a very rare disease, but it can be fatal if untreated.

What the chest pain actually indicates is a rupture of your heart’ s wall that was about to happen. This is one of the most feared heart attack complications. When a person is suffering from a heart attack, a tear in the heart’ s muscle results. Then, if there is any pain after the person has suffered the heart attack, then another rupture happens, that could lead to the persons’ s death. This condition is very rare, but it is also very quite. It must be treated right away or it will be fatal. Although, as I have said before, this heart attack complication is extremely rare, if a patient suffers from any chest pain after having a heart attack, then this condition must be one of the first things that the doctor should think about. Even if this may not be the case, it is better to be safe than sorry, especially after you have had a heart attack.

To actually see how rare this heart attack complication is, you should know that no more than twenty cases have been reported. Many of those cases have also been diagnosed after the patient’ s death. However, it is possible that many other heart attack patients have died as a result of this complication, but the cause was not recognized by the doctors. Nowadays, this heart attack complication can be diagnosed with the help of CT imaging. Even if a heart attack is suspected at first, doctors can now tell if there is another problem.

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Ronald

Sven Ullmann asked:


Today, people mistake heart attack for cardiac arrest. The differene between the two is actually very distinct. Cardiac arrest is the medical situation when your heart stopped beating. It does not necessarily mean there is something wrong with your heart. It could be a result of a complication. On the other hand, a heart attack is actually a disorder. Also called acute myocardial infarction, a heart attack is characterized by an interruption of the blood supply to a particular part of the heart resulting to oxygen shortage. The area not receiving sufficient oxygen suffers from tissue damage that could lead to tissue death. This is when a person would be experiencing a heart attack.

Since heart attacks are the leading causes of death worldwide, knowing the signs could mean the difference between life and death. Contrary to some belief, heart attacks do not always have to be a “chest-grabbing” incident. Many people experiencing a heart attack actually thought it was just heart burn or chest muscle pains. And it doesn’t even have to be a one-time discomfort. You can experience recurring symptoms, which may feel mild one day and the next day severe, before an actual heart attack happens. So before you put yourself or your loved ones in serious dangers, here are some heart attack signs to look for.

The most classic heart attack sign is a feeling of discomfort in the middle of the chest. It could be a sudden dull pain that could subside after a few minutes. But remember that this kind of chest discomfort always come back. You may also feel an uncomfortable squeezing, pressure of even fullness aside from the mild to severe pain. This chest discomfort is actually because of the oxygen shortage in the heart muscle. Some pain actually spread to the left arm, lower jaw, back and stomach region.

Another heart attack sign is the sudden shortness of breath. This is because the left part of the heart has limited output, eventually damaging the heart. You will also exhibit other heart attack signs such as sweating, nausea, weakness, vomiting, light headedness and palpitations. Some persons lose consciousness when having a heart attack while others die suddenly.

In females, heart attack signs vary a little. The most common signs include weakness, dyspnea and fatigue. Sleep disturbances are also reported for a period as long as a month before an actual heart attack occurs. Not all persons with heart tissue damage will experience pain or discomfort. In fact, almost 30% of heart attack cases did not exhibit classic chest pain or other heart attack signs. It will only be confirmed after a medical investigation is done,

Individuals at risk of a heart attack are those who have a genetic disposition to it (family history), diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, high LDL levels and low HDL levels. People, who smoke, drink excessively, eat fatty foods, do not exercise and stressed, are also at risk of having a heart attack. These kinds of habits can be severly damaging to your body, and can ultimately prove to be fatal.

Laurie

horsegirlgrace asked:


How much are you at risk of having a heart attack when stoping your blood presure medication sudinly?

Heather

Good Health asked:


A heart attack is a life-threatening event. It is a need to know about the basic things so that it can help you at the sudden causes. The information should be there so that it may enable us to take sudden and correct decisions for curing it when it appears. If we have prior information of it will be a valuable asset to our loved ones and us.
This heart attack occurs when the supply of the blood and oxygen are blocked in to the area of heart muscle, especially the clot in a coronary artery. Due to this blockage of blood and oxygen it leads to the irregular heartbeat which causes severe decrease in the pumping of the heart and may bring about sudden death. This is the initial stage and it should be treated within few hours so that the heart muscles are not affected and are not replaced by the scar tissue. It is a require for us to know the caution signs of this disease and to get the emergency help at the time of need. Some people die because as they do not get the immediate help due to the permanent damage in the heart.
If the primary aid is given soon enough the permanent damage of the heart that is the blocked artery can be restored in time to avoid it. Yet, many of them do not get this medical care within the hours of the symptoms begin and they die. But a prompt treatment can prevent or cure their sudden death.
This is the disease which is caused in both men and women. If the person is already suffering form the coronary heart diseases, or underwent a bypass surgery is at the risk of having this disease. The men who are above 45 and women who are above 55 are exposed to this. If he has a hereditary background that is any of his family member was having this disease.
So it is very essential that these factors should be controlled before they appear. So they should have a control over smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes and we can also visit our health care provider to ask about the reduce of risk of having the heart attack.
This heart attack includes the warning signs and symptoms varies from person the person Some of them symptoms like the chest discomfort, discomfort in other areas if the upper body, shortness of breath, cold sweat, having nausea and vomiting, feeling light headed or dizzy.
As this heart attack is a medical emergency, it should be prevented if we know the warning signs of the attack and can be treated as fast as possible. This should be not delayed as it may cause to the sudden death in the person. The sooner the treatment is given the chances of recovery are more. It is a must and should need that there should be a physical examination periodically after the first treatment as it does not give a way for the second one.
So this heart attack is a chronic disease which once attacks cannot be completely treated but it can be prevented by the regular medications but yet you are in a depression thinking about it and you feel difficult in getting adjusted to this life. So at this time you need the affection of your loved ones which makes you to cure it as early possible.
Take this information as a basic one and not as medical advice. But if you have any more clarifications you can visit our site www.drraomd.com . This site is the site where you can get information of many diseases. You can also meet our Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Rao.K. for more consult which would help you for further need. You can also hear the videos of the customers who got cured their diseases at our center called Holistic Health Care and Research Center located at New York.

Ted

sharon42257 asked:


My boyfriend will be 50 in a few weeks, obviously is at the prime age for a heart attack. Last week before this chest discomfort start he was doing some heavy lifting. He waited for almost a week to tell me that he had this pain and is blowing it off that it’s due to the lifting. He says that if it was a heart attack that he would’ve been dead by now.

Diane

David Cowley asked:


People who have experienced a heart attach should take aspirin in order to help prevent another attack from occurring according to the American Heart Association. Studies have concluded that aspirin can help to prevent a heart attach and it’s also effective for people who have been determined by their doctor to have a high risk of having an attack. Before you begin aspirin therapy you should consult with your physician.

Effectiveness of Aspirin

Aspirin is effective at preventing a person from having a heart attach by preventing clots from forming that can block the flow of blood to the heart. People who have already had an attack can usually be helped by using an aspirin therapy program and people who have not had an attack but are at high risk due to diabetes, high cholesterol and other factors can get some protection with an aspirin therapy program. However taking aspirin on a daily basis can thin out your blood and can produce side effects such as bleeding.

There is a risk of experiencing sever bleeding by taking too much aspirin. A study has concluded that using more than 100 mg of aspirin per day significantly increases the possibility of bleeding from your nose as well as severe problems such as bleeding in your brain also called a stroke. One study has shown that serious bleeding happens in just a little more that one percent of patients who have heart disease and are involved in aspirin therapy with dosages of around 80 mg of aspirin per day.

Baby Aspirin

However a serious bleeding condition happens to about five percent of people who have heart disease and are using 200 mg or more of aspirin on a daily basis in order to prevent a heart attach from occurring. When the study reviewed all the bleeding that occurred due to being involved in aspirin therapy, including simple bleeding, taking 100 to 200 mg a day of aspirin caused bleeding in eleven percent of the people. People who were taking baby aspirin showed a rate of slightly more than one percent for bleeding.

There is some disagreement in the medical community about the proper dosage of aspirin for people who are taking it to prevent a heart attach. However studies have shown that taking a baby aspirin can be effective and is safer than taking a higher dosage on a daily basis. There are some situations where a patient might begin taking a higher dosage and then decrease it as time goes by such as a patient who had stents placed in his arteries. Stints are very small flexible types of coils that are utilized to open up blocked arteries; however stints increase the possibility of acquiring blood clots.

Dr. Robert Bonow of the University Feinberg School of Medicine believes that taking low dosage of aspirin is the best choice for the prevention of your first heart attack and should also be used for the prevention of subsequent heart attacks. According to a new research review, the most commonly prescribed aspirin dose for heart health in the United States is 81 milligrams per day. If you had a heart attach or at risk for having one you might want to consult with your doctor about taking aspirin as a preventive measure.

Roberto

Ricky D asked:


i have anxiety attacks and am taking ativan… the medicine isnt working 100% because i still feel like crap.. my heart is always racing and am wondering if im coming up on a heart attack?

Clara