Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease is a disease that is very scary figure. The numbers of deaths worldwide from cardiovascular disease was 30%, of all-cause mortality (WHO 2004 report). Occurred one death due to cardiovascular disease every two seconds, a heart attack every five seconds and from stroke every six seconds. You can imagine how many people are dying while we are spending our time for 10 minutes to eat lunch. Each year an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease as the figure continues to rise.

In 2005, the death rate from cardiovascular disease reached 17.5 million. Approximately 7.6 million of which occurred due to coronary heart disease and 5.7 million from stroke. It is estimated that global deaths from cardiovascular disease to reach about 25 million by 2020. This is a pretty horrendous figures, although in subsequent years could be more horrendous again.

While approximately 10 million people in the world who survived a stroke each year, more than 5 million of them suffered permanent disability. This is due to stroke makes the blood spurting out of the broken blood vessels around the brain and destroy brain cells that should be protected from any disturbance. Those who have disabilities due to stroke are less likely to be working and productive as adults healthy so that it becomes a burden for families and society. In 2020, cardiovascular disease is estimated to occupy a higher position on top of infectious diseases as the greatest cause of disability worldwide.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. The disease attacks the population in developed countries and developing countries in the world. This disease is a disease that is generally confined to adults and the elderly, especially aged 60 years and over, because the age is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but it is worrying is the tendency there are more and more people young age suffering from diseases this worldwide. This can occur because of changes in lifestyle, especially in the modern urban young people. Progress in the field of tourism, communications, information, and a way of thinking would be a double-edged sword that can be used by humans to advance their interest or even self-destruction.

When the era of globalization lead to information more easily available, developing countries could soon emulate the habits of western countries deemed mirror modern lifestyles. Some behaviors such as eating fast food (fast food), high saturated fat diet, smoking, alcohol, overwork, lack of exercise, and stress, has become a way of human life, especially in urban areas. Though all of these behaviors are the factors that cause cardiovascular disease. Society just want to enjoy the gratification of his stomach, without thinking that what he eats and do today may be a deciding factor in the future survival. People will not think to stop when enjoying fast food because of taste that was served. But if only they understood very well that fast food is outstanding food that is not nutritious and is one of the factors of heart killers, they may be immediately stopped eating and throw it away. This applies also to the habit of smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, and others.

Treatment of cardiovascular disease started from an attempt to change the lifestyle in terms of food, exercise habits and reduce the risk faktro known as drinking alcohol and smoking. These things then combined with drugs that can be long-term treatment option for patients.

There are three forms of cardiovascular disease, namely:

    Coronary heart disease (heart attack) is a disease of the blood vessels that supply the heart. These blood vessels called coronary arteries. Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of coronary heart disease. Atherosclerosis is the hardening and narrowing of coronary arteries by forming plaques (crust) and blockage. Coronary heart disease caused by risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle (inactivity), old age, and heredity. The implication includes myocardial infarction (heart attack), angina (chest pain), and arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythm).
    Cerebrovascular disease is a disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain. Implications include transient ischemic attack (temporary damage to vision, speech, taste or movement).
    Peripheral vascular disease (Peripheral vascular disease, PVD) or arterial disease peripheral (peripheral arterial disease, PAD) is a disease of the blood vessels supplying the arms and legs resulting in pain for a while to come and go, as well as pain due to cramping leg muscles during exercise , These risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, inactivity, aging, and heredity.