Disease Prevention: Heart Attacks

On heart attacks and what causes them

Are you and your family concerned about having heart attacks? You may be concerned about having strokes, too and wondering what causes them to happen. They are often related to one another.

Consider the following in relation to heart attacks and strokes.

Sudden fear, anger and paranoia can bring on the symptoms of both heart attacks and strokes. So can sudden, excessive activity and upsetting family situations or financial concerns.

If you research the causes of heart attacks, you will find that there are normally about ten, major, life-changing events in a person's life that trigger heart attacks. They can cause a sudden elevation in a person's blood pressure, which could result in stroke activity.

When these events or triggers occur simultaneously, a heart attack can occur suddenly. This can happen when there is a series of events that take place, over a short period of time. Note that heart attacks or strokes do not always occur, depending to some degree on the heart health status and physical strength of that person.

There are many factors to take into consideration.

The emotional make-up, degree of interaction or involvement in the event, the person's own, unique personality and the amount of physical activity that the person normally has on a regular basis, are important.

Proper dietary and fluid management are part of this scenario. So is the level of consumption with regard to alcohol, tobacco and other, chemical substances that may be abused or lead to addictions, over time. One's electrolyte balance is important too.

Undiagnosed or untreated medical conditions, like diabetes or Parkinson's Disease, may cause added stress on the heart. Untreated surgical conditions, like gallstones or kidney stones cause severe pain that can lead to a heart attack or a stroke.

The patency of a person's blood vessels is a crucial factor, because when there are blocked, blood vessels due to a build up of cholesterol, a more serious blockage can occur. In the heart, that could cause a heart attack. In the brain, it may result in a stroke.

Recurrent strokes lead to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease associated with memory loss or dementia, where there is the loss of reality. Mini-strokes lead to a gradual loss of memory that may not be recognized until a major happenstance occurs. 

The bottom line is this. We all need to learn more about heart attacks and what causes them. There are thousands of dvds, cds, books and articles on the life-changing events that lead to heart attacks and strokes.