Cardiovascular Diseases

Ways to prevent Cardiovascular Diseases

1. Don't smoke or stop smoking if you smoke.
2. Put exercising in your schedule at least 30 mins daily or on most days of the week.
3. Have a healthy diet and lifestyle.
4. Keep track on your mass.
5. Manage your stress
6. Check your blood pressure and cholesterol level

How to diagnose or detect cardiovascular diseases?
- Humans are working on using medical devices to diagnose and detect cardiovascular diseases. There are existing test that doctors conduct to diagnose patients such as:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG) - ECG records electrical signals wherein detects abnormalities in your heartbeats, heart rhythm and structure. You can have ECG while you are at rest or while exercising ( stress electrocardiogram)
• Cardiac catheterization- it is when the sheath (short tube) is inserted in your vein or artery either in your arm or leg. Then, there is a guide catheter which is a hollow, flexible and longer tube inserted into the sheath. Using the x-ray images in the monitor, the doctor threads the guide catheter until it reaches your heart.
• Echodiagram- this is a noninvasive exam wherein it includes the ultrasound of your chest and shows your heart with a defined structure.
• Holter monitoring- it is a portable device to wear to record ECG spontaneously (usually for 24 to 72 hours). It used to detect irregularities in your heart's rhythm that ECG can't when in normal ECG exam.
• Stress test- it shows how your heart responds when raising your heart rate with exercise or medicine while performing heart tests.

How to treat cardiovascular diseases?

• Change in your lifestyle - this means turning away from all of the things that contradict you from healing to your illness. Such as diet, physical activities and also your vices.
• Medications - listen to what your doctor says. Take the medication he is prescribing. Make the effort to do all of the things you need to do.
• Medical procedure or surgery - of this kind of treatment is necessary especially when the two of the treatments above didn't work, then your doctor will suggest you have a certain surgery or procedure. It will depend on how much damage your heart has.