Creating Awareness For The Heart, Maintenance And Functions

INTRODUCTION

I welcome you all to this week contest. I really thank the healthy steem and the organiser @mesola for coming up with this inciting topic " Creating Awareness for the heart, maintenance and functions. I believe this very contest will educate us on how to take proper maintenance of our heart.
I will like to invite my friends @okere-blessing, @kidi40, @wizzyboy3 to join me in this contest.

Heart disease is a condition that affects the structure of the heart and how it functions. Heart disease comes in groups of different conditions with different thing that causes it to malfunction.

Mention few types of heart disease

•Coronary Artery Disease: The arteries is the vessel that supply blood to the heart. When the artery is blocked, and cannot supply blood enough to the heart, it becomes a problem, and can lead to pain in the chest arm, neck etc.

•Arrhythmias: This is when the heartbeat cannot stimulate its rhythms, or the pattern it is beating is irregular. It either cause the heart to beat too fast or too slow.

•Congenital Heart Disease: This happen when the structure of the heart is deformed. Example is having a hole that exist between the heart chambers. People with this heart disease are born with it, or acquired it after birth through infection.

•Heart Failure: This happens when the heart is weakened and damaged. High blood pressure and other heart disease can make the heart weak or stiff, and blood cannot be pumped effectively. This leads to heart fafailure

How does the heart work to pump blood throughout the body and why is it essential for overall health.

How the blood pumps from the heart to the entire body is by flowing first through your heart and your lungs to be refilled with more oxygen before pumping to the rest of your body.

The heart which is a very large muscles regularly pushes oxygen rich blood to the brain and limb of the body example the hands, and feet, and transport the oxygen poor blood from the brain and limbs of the body to the lungs to gain oxygen.

Blood flows into the right atrium from the body, moves into the right ventricle and is pushed into the pulmonary arteries in the lungs.

When the oxygen is picked, blood will travel back to the heart through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, and to the left ventricle, and then gets out to the body tissues through the aorta.

This process is essential to our overall health and well being. It makes our heart healthy and the quality of our lifestyle is easier to live. We live freely without any cardiovascular disease.

But once anything alters this process by not letting the heart pumps blood effectively, it becomes a health issues that we need to manage or visit the hospital everytime or live on drugs.

The different types of heart disease and risk factors that can lead to cardiovascular problems

Coronary Heart Disease and it's risk factors
•High blood pressure,
•High cholesterol,
•Lack of regular exercise,
•Diabetes
•Obesity
•Thrombosis

Arrhythmias and it's risk factors
•Heart problem at birth
•Thyroid disease
•Asthma
•Chronic lung disease
•Diabetes
•High blood pressure

Congenital heart disease and it's rick factors
•Drinking alcohol during pregnancy
•Smoking
•Family history and genetics
•Medications
•Diabetes

Heart Failure and it's risk factors
•Obesity
•High blood pressure
•Unhealthy diet
•Lack of physical activities
•Heavy alcohol use
•Diabetes.

What can be done to keep the heart healthy?

•Quit smoking because smokers are liable to die young.
•Be physically active
•Know and control your blood pressure
•Maintain a healthy weight
•Limit the use of alcohol
•Reduce stress
•Follow your doctors advice and visit the hospital whenever you feel discomfort in your health.