subject: All about Cardiovascular Disease [print this page] All about Cardiovascular Disease All about Cardiovascular Disease
The serious condition that influences your blood circulation and your heart is called cardiovascular disease. There are many kinds of serious disease related to the cardiovascular problems such as heart attack, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, stroke, and heart failure. One bad habit that would contribute the risk of this disease is smoking. It not only improves the risk of lung cancer, emphysema and other kinds of lung disease but it also really dangerous for your heart.
It has been observed that in every year many people continue to smoke even start to smoke although there are many medical disclaimers in place and anti-smoking campaigns. The most serious problem is the fact that teenager and children are the newest smokers who have died prematurely because of smoking. Also, cardiovascular disease is the cause of the death of one person in every five smokers.
The dangerous cigarette or tobacco smoking is the high contribution to the risk of coronary heart disease especially for people up to 50 years old. It also gives the greater risk of cardiovascular problems to the women who are about 35 years old and smoke while taking oral contraception.
However, there are many bad effects caused by smoking to the condition of your cardiovascular system. It extremely produces the long-term and immediate development in heart rate and blood pressure that would lead you to the serious heart problems. The coronary blood flow, cardiac output, and also the oxygen that reaches the muscular tissues would be reduced by smoking. This condition would be really dangerous to your heart health.
In addition, smoking would influence the properties of blood cells and blood vessels in your body. The condition would create the possibility o the fatty plaques and calories to be built up in the blood vessels or blood cells. It absolutely damages the blood system especially the blood vessels in your body and reduces the blood flow to the brain. The worst of this condition is the risk ischemic stroke.
