Horrible Facts Heart Attack

Horrible Facts Heart Attack

Unhealthy lifestyle that make heart attacks are now not only attack the person of old age but also young people. There are a few facts about heart attacks that occur worldwide.

Human heart pumps blood around the body is constantly at around 4-5 liters of blood per minute. Therefore, if blood flow is not smooth can cause heart muscle damage, which causes the pump disorders of the heart (heart failure) and death.

To be able to get a long life, the heart is one organ that absolutely must be kept healthy. Heart disorders can be deadly, so prevention becomes the wisest step to avoid sudden death from heart attack.

Some of the facts about heart attacks that occur worldwide, reported by Medindia on Wednesday (03/09/2011), namely:

   1. 12.5 million of the estimated 32 million heart attacks that occur worldwide fatal
   2. 40-75 percent of all heart attack victims die before reaching hospital
   3. 50 percent of heart attack patients waited for 2 hours or more before getting medical help
   4. Disease
      heart kills more women than men in the United States each year
   5. 38 percent of women die within a year after suffering a heart attack, compared with 25 percent of men.
   6. 1 of 5 Naturalife Greenworld some form of heart or blood vessel disease
   7. Risk of second heart attack within six years of a first heart attack in the estimate of 35 percent in women and 18 percent in men
   8. South Asian men are more prone to heart attacks at a younger age compared with persons belonging to other ethnic groups
   9. It is estimated that worldwide 15.6 million people have rheumatic heart disease, 470,000 new cases of rheumatic fever and 233,000 deaths are caused by rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease every year, especially in developing countries.
  10. High blood pressure is called the 'silent killer'
  11. High blood pressure can cause stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure.
  12. People can reduce the risk of heart attack with lifestyle modifications, such as quitting smoking, not obese or lose weight, no alcohol consumption, physical activity and manage stress.
  13. People can add up to 5 years life expectancy with quitting smoking
  14. Eating fish once a week can reduce the chance of having a heart attack by 52 percent
  15. Having a personality that is vindictive or rather hostile (hostile Personalities) increases the risk of heart attack
  16. Watching the World Cup also increase the risk of heart attack.