World Heart Day 2016 - Power Your Life
Author - Amrita Surendranath
Article Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Sep 28, 2016
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World Heart Day 2016 - Power Your Life
Heart disease and stroke lead to the loss of 17.3 million lives every year, with an expected increase in premature deaths due to heart conditions rising to about 23 million by the year 2030.World Heart Day 2015: Healthy Heart Choices For Everyone Everywhere
"Rest a While, Run a Mile"; on this Heart Day to motivate yourself to be active. Try to make simple healthy lifestyle choices such as exercising regularly, using stairs instead of elevators, abstaining from tobacco and alcohol.World Heart Day 2014: Create a Heart-Healthy Environment
The theme for the World Heart Day 2014, being observed on the 29th of September every year, is to create a heart-healthy environment to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.World Heart Day 2013
The World Heart Day, celebrated on September 29, 2013, focuses on women and children and how certain steps taken right from childhood can reduce the chances of cardiovascular disease especially in this population. Heart disease was once considered a disease of older men.Heart Attack
Heart attack, also called myocardial infarction, is the death of the heart muscle due to loss of blood supply caused due to blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries supplying the heart. The other names for heart attack include acute myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, and coronary occlusion. Heart attack is a life-threatening event and everyone should know the warning signs of it.Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Coronary artery bypass grafting is an open-heart procedure to relieve the blockages of the arteries of the heart. After a heart attack certain areas of the heart do not receive adequate blood supply and these areas are starved of oxygen and nutrients and this result in areas of the heart that are ischemic. By performing CABG these areas are re-perfused using 'free vein or arterial bypass' that connect the normal areas of the arteries to less perfused areas and "bypass" the blocked arteries.Cardiac Catheterization / Coronary Angiogram
Cardiac catheterization is a radiological procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions. It involves the insertion of a long thin flexible tube called catheter a vein or an artery to the heart. Cardiac catheterization can be done at any age, including for new borns. The procedure approximately takes an hour or more depending on the condition for which it is performed.Advertisement
