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Even though it is important for all of us to do all we can to lower the major risk factors for heart disease, once you have done so try to keep a sense of proportion. Remember that heart disease is a disease not a punishment. Blaming yourself or feeling guilty or inadequate for developing it is not useful and may increase feelings of helplessness which can be damaging to self-esteem and confidence and may even impede recovery.

Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death for adults in the United States, Each year, 1.5 million Americans have a heart attack and one-third of these people die. Some factors that predispose people to heart attacks cannot be modified: family history of heart disease, growing older, and being male. But there are other risks that can be reduced or elimiated: cigarette smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diet high in saturated fats, and lack of exercise. By not smoking, eating a healthful diet, exercising regularly, and treating their high blood pressure,many people can avoid having heart attacks.

Symptoms of a heart attack vary, but the most common is a persistent, crushing chest pain that may spread to the left arm, jaw, neck, or shoulder blades and last as long as twelve hours. Sometimes a heart attack causes just a mild pain that can be mistaken for indigestion, but ingestion can ususlly be relieved by antacids.

One of the most positive things that you can do - and must do if you have been told you should have coronary surgery - is to give up smoking. A smoker under fifty, whether a man or woman, is five times at risk from developing heart disease. Not just that, but if you smoke you are more likely to die from heart disease. In the UK alone just under a quarter of the men who die of coronary heart disease and just over a tenth of women do so because they smoke. In fact, it is estimated about half the 100,000 smoking-linked deaths each year are a result of arterial disease.

Women who have diabetes, high blood cholesterol or who take the contraceptive diabetes, high blood cholesterol or who take the contraceptive pill are all more likely to develop heart disease if they smoke too. The good news is that if you stop smoking, no matter how long you have been a smoker, your risk of heart disease starts to go down. Within three years of giving up, your risk of dying is almost the same as for someone who has never smoked.

There is no absolutely foolproof way to give up, but there are several strategies and aids you can use to help yourself. Some people find the motivation from books, inspirational individuals, videos, or from the knowledge that quitting will improve their health and well-being. If you have tried to give up in the past and failed, the fact that you have developed heart disease is proof of the damage that it is doing to your health and may just give you the extra willpower you need this time. If you feel you could do with extra help ask your doctor about aids such as nicotine patches, gum and so on. Some ex-smokers have quit with the aid of complementary therapies ranging from hypnotherapy to acupuncture. These can act as valuable boosters to your motivation.

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One of the common heart disease is nonetheless, coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease results from a restricted suupply of blood to the heart muscle. When arteries become clogged, or narrowed, by deposits of hardened fat, cholesterol, and other substances called plague, blood does not flow through them easily.

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