‘Heart Disease Accounts For 25% Of Global Deaths’

Cardiovascular disease otherwise known as heart disease is said to account for 25 per cent of all deaths around the world.
The disease, which is common in the developed nations is the biggest killer in the entire world and in developed world, the proportion of total deaths rises to more than 50 per cent globally.
The Natural Remedies Encyclopedia, sixth edition, described the disease as our biggest dangers’ stating that there are many aspects to the disease which had contributed to the confusion of differentiating between it and other similar diseases.
It said, “part of the confusion is that everything is so interrelated beginning from diet to high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, angina, atherosclerosis and other degenerative heart changes. The underlying cause of most heart disease is atherosclerosis  which is brought on by high blood cholesterol levels which are themselves caused by a diet low in antioxidants and high in animal fat, butter and hydrogenated vegetable fats.
The Encyclopedia revealed the symptoms of cardiovascular disease to include nausea, sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting , feelings of anxiety, difficulty in swallowing, vomiting, sudden ringing in the ears and los of speech.
It said, “the heart attack itself may feel as a band of intense pressure to the heart.
A powerful pain is produced which may last for several minutes and often extends to the shoulder, arm, neck or jaw. But it may be a small attack producing relatively little discomfort. Sometimes it is mistaken as indigestion. Sometimes, there are no symptoms at all. This is termed a ‘silent heart attack’.
While noting that the medical term for cardiovascular disease was angina, it stated that ‘angina pectoris’ shows itself as recurrent pain beneath the sternum which lasts for 30-60 seconds, adding that it is a severe constricting pain in the chest often radiating from the heart to the left shoulder and down the arm.
The Encyclopedia explained that the cardiovascular system starts with the heart which is a blood pump. The blood is sent through arteries and veins throughout the body revealing that researchers have isolated three special substances in the body: the fibrinogen, C-reactive protein and high levels of homocysteine which they call ‘markers’ which point to the likelihood of serious attack ahead.
According to it, the fibrinogen is a protein used to coagulate various substances, adding that the clumping action was primarily needed to stop bleeding when the body is injured saying, “high fibrinogen level can bring attack in one or another of three ways-hyper coagulation, blood platelet aggregation and excessive blood platelet aggregation and excessive blood thickening”.
“The C-reactiive protein when there is too much of it, a person has increased risk of having floating pieces of plaque in the blood vessel leading to arterial blood clothing with the plaque being an accumulation of cholesterol and other substances on the inner sides of blood vessels”, it stated.

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