Contents:
- Medical Video: Coronary heart disease, clogged arteries and atherosclerosis
- The main cause of a heart attack
- Heart attack due to blockage vs. blood vessel tension
- What causes tension in the coronary arteries?
- How to treat this condition?
Medical Video: Coronary heart disease, clogged arteries and atherosclerosis
Heart attacks can occur at any time and to anyone. Maybe before you look healthy and fit, but unexpectedly soon you have a heart attack. In fact, all this time you and your family have avoided fatty foods, which can cause clogged blood vessels.
Yes, indeed many consider that fat stacks that cause heart attacks. But, it turns out it's not the only cause of abnormal heart function.
The main cause of a heart attack
Heart attack is a condition in which the heart muscles stop due to not getting blood flow, so the heart has no power to pump blood normally. These heart muscles stop because the tissue in the muscle dies because it doesn't get food and oxygen from the bloodstream.
Most of these conditions are caused by blockages in the blood vessels, resulting in blood flow not reaching the heart muscle. The blockage of the arteries occurs due to years of plaque buildup. Fat can be one of the main plaques that make blood flow clogged.
However, not all heart attacks are caused by plaque buildup. However, it can also be caused by a tense coronary artery due to something that then causes blood vessels to narrow and cannot drain the blood properly to the heart muscles. In the end, the heart muscle is damaged and a heart attack occurs.
Heart attack due to blockage vs. blood vessel tension
Blockage of blood vessels due to plaque (fat deposits) can occur in one or more blood vessels in the body. If you experience this, you will feel chest pain during or after physical activity.
While a heart attack due to blood vessel tension usually occurs when you rest or when you wake up from sleep. This chest pain usually lasts for less than 15 minutes. If the tension occurs more than 15 minutes, it is very likely that a heart attack will occur.
What causes tension in the coronary arteries?
There are several risk factors that can cause your blood vessels to tighten and then be unable to drain the bloodstream normally, namely:
- Smoking habit.
- Consume large amounts of alcohol frequently.
- Are experiencing chemotherapy treatment or have experienced it.
- Has low magnesium levels in the body.
- Menstrual cycle.
- Excessive stress and depression.
- Feeling cold
- Take drugs that contain stimulants, such as amphetamine and cocaine.
Most of the risk factors above work by stimulating the body to shrink blood vessels, either because there are substances contained therein (cocaine and cigarettes) or because of hormonal changes (stress or depression).
How to treat this condition?
The main purpose of the treatment given to people who experience blood vessel tension is to prevent a heart attack from happening. usually, the doctor will give several drugs that can prevent chest pain.
In addition, if you have this condition, avoid various triggers such as smoking, severe stress, and being in a cold place.
