Heart Image Tips

On an average, your heart beats from 60-100 times per minute. Through your sleep, workouts, showers, through everything!

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Contrary to current belief regular caffeine intake does not lead to extra heart beats, which causes stroke or heart related morbidity and mortality in rare cases scientists, including one of the indian origin have found
Excessive premature atrial contractions (pacs) have been shown to result in atrial fibrillation, stroke and death while excessive premature ventricular contractions (pvcs) have been shown to result in increased heart failure, coronary artery disease and death

Heart Disease Myths
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Myth No. 1: It is ok to have a high blood pressure in elderly.

Blood pressure tends to rise with age, but it does not mean that this rise is normal. It happens because with age, the arterial walls become stiff and this stiffness cannot be called as a normal stiffness. Stiff arteries make the heart to pump harder. Blood pounding against the artery walls, damages them over time. The overworked heart muscles become less effective and pumps even...more

Patients with history of heart attack or family history should take following dietary measures to prevent the heart attack again.
• Cut down salt (common table salt) intake in your diet to avoid hypertension. Intake should not exceed more then 2 to 2.5 gm a day.
• Avoid foods rich in cholesterol: ground nut oil, ghee, butter, whole milk, eggs, lard (fats derived from pig meat), tallow (fats derived from goat or sheep mutton) – all non-vegetarian food contain cholesterol in varied amoun...more

Any of these people are at risk of developing heart disease.

1. Uncontrolled diabetes
2. Hypertension
3. Smoking (very strong factor)
4. Obesity
5. Family history of heart disease
6. Stress and angry nature
7. High ldl (bad cholesterol)
8. Low hdl (good cholesterol)
9. Sedentary lifestyle (lack of exercise)
10. Older age.
11. Indians are in high risk group,

Some other factors like men are more susceptible, and post menopausal women are a...more

1. Garlic-helps to keep the blood thin.
2. Ginger-interfere with the formation of the blood clots helping towards of heart attacks.
3. Green tea-keep blood pressure under control.
4. Oats bran-lower cholestrole
5. Onions-keep the blood thin &prevent the blood clot.
6. Wine-lowering the harmful ldl& its contain antioxidant property but should be in limit.

Hi,Every body on Lybrates-Its a question for you at young age or for your grandma and grandpa? Hope its for you. Any one can prevent heart attacks,with following tips-1-I would advise you -30 mts jog every day ,2-Plenty of liquids,6-8 hrs sleep,3-Good food habits and timings,4-Less of oils and more of vegies,/no smoking,no alchohol ,5-And HEALTH CHECKS-every 6 mths once with your family doctor and with his advise for the Biochemic profiles of your body.I think this would reduce your risks tremen...more

Heart attack can present with chest, neck, arm as well as abdomen (epigastrium).
Symptoms can be absent in diabetic patients, presentation can be only giddiness or sweating or just nausea vomiting.
So never ignore these symptoms.
Like I always say early diagnosis is key to better treatment and recovery. Rejoice:)

Symptoms of heart attack

A heart attack (myocardial infarction) should not be confused with stroke or heart failure. It is the condition which causes major damage to heart muscles because of sudden blockage by a blood clot. The most common symptom of heart attack happens to be chest pain. Heart failure and ventricular fibrillation are probably the most common complications in this condition.

Clear symptoms of heart attack are:

1. Feeling vaguely ill - very vague feeli...more