Cardiologists note that many diseases by their profile “get younger” every year. Including heart attack, which is also called myocardial infarction. This means that now not only elderly people with low physical activity and psychological stress, but also apparently healthy young men and women fall into the risk zone. It can be noted that most often this disease is found in a strong half of humanity. This condition is very serious, caused by coronary artery thrombosis. This is the main cause of this disease, which in most cases leads to death.
What are the causes of a heart attack?
In fact, there are a lot of them, and it happens that they take place in the aggregate. Obviously, this exacerbates the situation and increases the risk of developing the disease. The main set of factors that will inevitably lead to heart attack over time is the following: heredity, unhealthy diet, a large amount of animal fat in food, overeating, diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, lack of physical activity, smoking, alcoholism. Doctors say that those involved in sports have a much lower risk of getting sick than lazy couch potatoes.
It is impossible to predict when a disease will overtake. Sometimes this happens at the time of extreme stress, sometimes even in a dream, but most often in the morning immediately after waking up. It was at this time that the human “motor” was experiencing the greatest load. A heart attack of the posterior wall of the heart is considered to be less dangerous. With timely help, the outcome will be positive. Only a scar that never dissolves on the muscle will be reminded of an accident.
What are the symptoms of a heart attack?
Everyone should know the signs of when to call an ambulance. The most obvious is acute pain in the middle of the chest. If with angina pectoris it occurs during intense physical exertion, then cardiac infarction is accompanied by it at rest. As a rule, the pain does not go away after taking Nitroglycerin. Sometimes nausea, dizziness may appear. Do not endure pain, because in this case it can be deadly.
But there are also known cases when there are no signs of a heart attack , and a person suffers the disease "on his feet." This happens to those who suffer from diabetes. It is possible to establish the fact of what happened with the help of a cardiogram, and after that - a thorough investigation by ultrasound.
Heart attack of the anterior wall of the heart: types and localization
This type of disease is much more common and has several forms that differ in the place of damage to the heart muscle. A common transmural heart attack is the most dangerous. It occurs due to thrombosis of the common trunk of the left coronary artery. The acute period is painful and can lead to rupture of the heart. During the defeat of the anterior interventricular artery, an anterior septal heart attack occurs. He is not so dangerous. There are two more types: antero-apical and antero-lateral.
To combat this disease, preventive measures are very important. Each person can protect himself, you just need to lead a correct and active lifestyle. Then no ailments are terrible.