Although Heart Disease is the main cause of death in the Western World it is astonishing how dinky the normal social really know about it.
For example very few citizen realize that there isn't just one type of Heart Disease. In fact there are at least ten distinct types and these fall into two confident categories - Organic and Degenerative.
The major variation between Organic and Degenerative Heart Disease is their causes.
Organic refers to a situation where the organ (the heart) is damaged by a exact event. This can also be referred to as "acute", which simply means that it happened suddenly or over a short period of time. Degenerative Heart Disease (sometimes referred to as "chronic") is caused by gradual deterioration over a long period of time.
There are two types of Organic H.D. - Congenital and Rheumatic .
Defects that occur at birth are classed as Congenital Heart Disease. These may affect the heart itself : it may not have industrialized ordinarily during pregnancy, the wall of the heart may be damaged (hole in the heart), or the blood vessels may be underdeveloped. These defects may be hereditary or more likely have been caused by external factors such as drugs or infection during pregnancy. They are ordinarily diagnosed at birth or in early childhood but it is not uncommon for the symptoms to occur for the first time in adulthood..
Rheumatic Heart Disease can be the supervene of a bout of rheumatic fever. Occurrences have decreased considerably due to the use of antibiotics to treat rheumatic fever.
There are at least eight exact diseases, which fall into the kind of Degenerative Heart Disease. The base factors within this kind are that the disease has progressed gently and that there is no exact event that has caused it.
The vast majority of citizen who are diagnosed with Heart Disease have some form of degenerative heart disease. This is the form of disease that is the target of the awareness campaigns and is the type that we can help to prevent by our lifestyles choices.
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