With all the holidays goin' down in Groundhog Day, you might forget that it's also American Heart Month. Heart disease, which is also called cardiovascular disease, is the number one cause of death in the US. Learn more about it right here.
A Heart-to-Heart With Your Heart o1c4c
The the body.
Different Types of Heart Disease 636z10
If the heart and blood vessels don't pump properly, you can get sick and have heart disease.
- Congenital Heart Disease - Congenital heart disease is the kind that you're born with, but it's not that common. It can be caused by heredity or viral diseases like the German measles.
- Acquired Heart Disease - Acquired heart disease develops sometime during childhood as a result of illnesses like rheumatic fever.
- Arrhythmia - Arrhythmia is an abnormal rhythm of the heart. Normally, the heart beats at 50-150 beats per minute, but a person's heart can beat very fast (tachycardia) or very slow (bradycardia).
- Heart Murmurs - A heart murmur is a whooshing sound between each heartbeat. The whoosh isn't serious, but is just an extra noise that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. However, sometime murmurs can be a symptom of larger problems.
What Are the Symptoms? 6x35k
- Breathing problems
- Low blood pressure
- Excessive sweating
- Lack of appetite
- Poor growth
How Is it Treated? 3e1b62
Doctors who specialize in the heart are called cardiologists. They perform a your heart and lungs.
Did U Know? 696k2p
- About 40,000 kids are born with heart disease every year.
- So far, at least 35 different kinds of heart disease have been identified.
- Eating a exercising regularly lower the risk of heart disease.
- One of the things that make health insurance affordable is group rates.
