Cardiologists note that many diseases according to 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 motor activity and psychological stress are at risk, but also outwardly absolutely he althy young men and women. It can be noted that most often this disease is found in a strong half of humanity. This condition is very severe, caused by thrombosis of the coronary artery. This is the main cause of this disease, which in most cases leads to death.
What causes a heart attack?
In fact, there are quite a lot of them, and it happens that they take place in the aggregate. Obviously, this further aggravates the situation and increases the risk of developing the disease. The main set of factors that will inevitably lead to a heart attack over time is the following: heredity, impropernutrition, a large amount of animal fat in food, overeating, diabetes, high blood pressure, lack of physical activity, smoking, alcoholism. Doctors say that those who play sports have a significantly lower risk of getting sick than lazy couch potatoes.
It is impossible to predict when an illness will overtake. Sometimes it happens at the moment of the strongest stresses, sometimes even in a dream, but most often in the morning immediately after waking up. It is at this time that the human “motor” experiences the greatest load. Infarction of the posterior wall of the heart is considered to be less dangerous. With timely assistance, the outcome will be positive. Only a scar will remind you of the accident, which will never resolve on the muscle.
What are the symptoms of a heart attack?
Everyone should know the signs of when to call the ambulance. The most obvious is a sharp pain in the middle of the chest. If with angina pectoris it occurs during strong physical exertion, then a heart attack is accompanied by it at rest. As a rule, the pain does not go away after taking the drug "Nitroglycerin". Sometimes nausea, dizziness may occur. You should not endure pain, because in this case it can be deadly.
But there are also cases when there are no signs of a heart attack, and a person suffers the disease “on his feet”. This happens in those who suffer from diabetes. You can establish the fact of what happened using a cardiogram, and after a thorough ultrasound examination.
Infarction 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 location of the lesion of the heart muscle. A widespread transmural infarction 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 heart failure. During the defeat of the anterior interventricular artery, anterior septal infarction of the heart takes place. He's not that dangerous. There are two more types: anterior-apical and anterior-lateral.
Preventive measures are very important to fight this disease. Everyone can protect themselves, you just need to lead a correct and active lifestyle. Then no illnesses are terrible.
