Heart Attack

Heart is an organ in vertebrates that pump Blood around the body by contraction and relaxation. The heart has four chambers in it from which two are superior atria and two are inferior ventricles. A heart is made of cardiac muscle which is an automatic striated muscle tissue found only within the walls of this organ.

Heart is a very important organ in our body and like any other muscle in the body it needs oxygen to survive or else it dies; a heart gets oxygen from the oxygenated blood that passes through it. Heart attacks are very dangerous; it is caused because of the cholesterol buildup in blood vessels in the form of plague. With the blood vessels clotted it cannot supply blood to the heart muscle when it becomes stressed. A heart attack is basically when heart is somehow loses the supply of blood completely which causes the muscle to die. This is called Heart Attack. Some Symptoms of heart attack are chest pain associated with shortness of breath (chest pain may be described as tightness, fullness, pressure or an ache), profuse sweating and nausea. Some people have other kinds of symptoms like indigestion, jaw ache, pain only in the shoulders or arms and vomiting.

People cannot control their family history or genetics so they should reduce the risk factors for heart diseases by quit smoking, manage high blood pressure, manage cholesterol, manage diabetes, and exercise regularly and by also taking a baby aspirin a day. These ways will reduce heart diseases not finish them.