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How To Avoid Heart Attack

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What is a Heart Attack?

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to a section of heart muscle becomes blocked. If the flow of blood isn’t restored quickly, the section of heart muscle becomes damaged from lack of oxygen and begins to die.

Causes For Heart Attack :

Smoking, Cholesterol, high blood pressure, Stress are the main causes for heart attacks.

Symptoms :

The Heart attacks are normally begin with Chest Pain, which may radiate up into the neck, or out into the arms. Possibly there will be shortness of breath, excessive sweating and severe weakness.

However, many heart attacks are totally "Silent". Nor can you be sure where the pain will originate; sometimes it may be like indigestion. Suppose you and or a loved one believe you are having a heart attack. What should I do?

When you come across people with this above symptoms, immediate consultation is necessary to take some invaluable steps. this would facilitate the specialist to administer clot-busting drugs which are very effective to save the life of patient. immediate care must be taken, if the patient is diabetic. any measures taken within first one hour are life=saving.

Everyone, can adopt a lifetstyle that is protective against a heart attack.


How To avoid Heart Attack :

Minimize the consumption of table salt and salt foods.

Eat low cholesterol diet.

Remember there is no cholesterol in salads, legumes, nuts, or grains.

Remove unnecessary fat meat, butter and margarine and cheese,, cream and ice cream for the diet.

Begin a programme of exercise under medical advice.

Taken your blood pressure regularly.

Reduce stress.

Watch lot more funny cartoons and comedy movies.


How To Avoid Heart Attack in the News

  • Man suffered heart attack before crashMiddletown Journal14 hours ago

    HAMILTON - A Middletown man had a heart attack and died before crashing his pickup truck along Oxford State Road, the Butler County Coroner’s Office ruled today, Nov.

  • The Heart Attack MythThirdAge35 hours ago

    EDMONTON -- The gender difference between men and women is a lot smaller than we've been led to believe when it comes to heart attack symptoms, according to a new study presented to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

  • Jail inmate suffers heart attack, diesEastern Arizona Courier2 days ago

    An inmate from the Graham County Jail was pronounced dead at the Mount Graham Regional Medical Center on Sunday after apparently suffering a massive heart attack.

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leefrank  says:
13 months ago

Very useful information on how to avoid a heart attack. Great post. Keep them coming....

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leefrank  says:
13 months ago

Very useful information on how to avoid a heart attack. Great post. Keep them coming....

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karhubpages  says:
13 months ago

Thank YOu lee for your comments.

Naveen Pathak  says:
7 months ago

Very good information about Heart attack !!!1

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