CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Disease information
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
The medical advances and the changes in the life style, have modified the panorama epidemiologist of the industrialized countries and although the life expectancy
has
increased remarkably and mortality by
infectious
diseases
has
diminished remarkably, other
diseases
have been increased remarkably and although in
almost
all of them they exist average for his control and treatment, personal, familiar, economic,
social
and emotional the cost that they cause is enormous.
Aside from the traffic accidents, the first causes of death constitute the
cardiovascular
diseases
now
and the
cancer
in all their modalities and them definitively influences the nutritional habits, the sedentarismo and the lack of physical exercise, the
addiction
to the tobacco, the exhibition to environmental polluting agents,
stress
and other factors, all related to the style of present life originated by the changes of
articles
of incorporation and cultural that they have changed radically.
In
Mexico
, the
cardiovascular
diseases
occupy the second place like mortality cause after the
diabetes
and in several industrialized countries, it
has
gotten to occupy the first cause of death reason why the investigations and their results expressed in novel treatments, have increased.
One of the most important successes is the identification of risk factors and the form to prevent them. The investigations epidemiologists on the causes of the ECV began at the beginning of last century and between the identified factors they are.
the influence of the feeding on the
development
of
arteriosclerosis
.
the action of the greasy animals on the
cholesterol
levels in blood or hipercolesteronemia.
the
arterial
hypertension
.
the
obesity
and the
diabetes
like
diseases
that favor the
cardiovascular
problems
.
The Métabólico
Syndrome
.
the sedentarismo and the lack of physical exercise.
the impact of the tabaquismo, the
alcoholism
and the use of other drugs or medicines.
the
stress
levels.
The main
problem
of the
cardiovascular
diseases
is the accumulation of
organic
, mainly greasy matter and
cholesterol
, inside the blood vessels. This process takes place in greater or smaller measurement in all the arteries of the organism,
but
when more worrisome it becomes east process is when the affected arteries are the ones in
charge
to contribute blood to the heart or to the brain.
The
problem
is that the
cardiovascular
diseases
do not only affect greater people, also reveal many data of
children
and young people with serious
problems
in the formation of ateromas, the thickening of the arteries, the formation of trombos or clots and other
problems
that derive in infarcts, insufficiency
cardiac
, trombosis, ateroesclerosis or
muscular
espasmos
of the heart.
Other
problems
are derived from defects or
congenital
or acquired
problems
in the valves of the heart, by the excessive growth of the heart and other severe
problems
.
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