Category heart health

Around the early 1990s, Japanese researchers demonstrated for the first time that suffering from severe emotional or physical stress can cause heart disease, called broken heart syndrome or takotsubo cardiomyopathy . For the symptoms caused - ie dyspnea, chest pain, transient cardiac rhythm changes, cardiogenic shock hypotension and fainting - takotsubo cardiomyopathy looks a lot like a heart attack

Thanks to advances in medicine and the conduct of numerous scientific studies in this regard, various characteristics of the heart became known, some of which are very interesting indeed. For example… The heart of man is different from the heart of a woman . In fact, it weighs more - about 280 grams compared to about 230 for the woman - and performs, at rest, fewer beats per minute - 70 against the woman's 78.

The aortic arch , or arch of the aorta , is that curved portion of the aorta, which, in every representation of the human heart, is noted to carry the cardiac organ with it and to continue with the descending aorta. Point of origin of three arteries fundamental for the oxygenation of the head and upper limbs, the aortic arch can present, in some individuals, with deformations or placed in anomalous positions

Some people are born with the heart slightly off-center to the right (instead of to the left) and marked by an anatomy completely mirroring that of a traditional heart: the atrium and the right ventricle, in fact, are on the left and the atrium and the left ventricle are on the right. This curious condition - called dextrocardia - affects only 1% of the general population and is, for some, completely asymptomatic and, for someone else, a cause of various health problems and even serious complications

Some people are born with the heart slightly off-center to the right, instead of to the left, and characterized by an anatomy completely mirroring that of a traditional heart: in fact, the atrium and the right ventricle are on the left and the atrium and the left ventricle are on the right. This curious condition - which affects only 1% of the general population - is called dextrocardia and is, for some, symptom-free and, for someone else, a cause of various disorders

As you know, the heart is in the chest, slightly off-center to the left. However, although it may seem strange, some individuals have their hearts positioned on the right. This curious condition - very rare, considering that it concerns 1% of the general population - is called dextrocardia (NB: "-cardia" derives from the Greek and means "heart")

Some people have their hearts slightly shifted to the right (rather than to the left) and have an anatomy that is completely similar to the traditional one. This strange condition - which affects only 1% of the general population - is called dextrocardia . Dystrocardia is generally without consequences, therefore those who are carriers are well and do not suffer from any disturbance

Cardiology is the branch of internal medicine that studies and treats diseases of the heart (heart disease) and blood vessels. The cardiologist , therefore, is an internal doctor specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the cardiovascular system (where "cardio" refers to the heart and "vascular" to the blood vessels)

Several studies have linked poor oral hygiene with an impressive number of diseases. Therefore, poorly cared for teeth can have negative repercussions on our entire health. The most certain link is between bad mouth health and cardiovascular diseases . In fact, chronic inflammation releases a series of inflammatory cytokines in the circulatory stream that promote the formation and / or rupture of atherosclerotic plaques, in turn responsible for dangerous cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks, ischemic strokes and heart disease

The heart attack - more properly called myocardial infarction - is the pathological process due to which the flow of blood destined for the myocardium (or the heart muscle) is inadequate to the requests. Often caused by atherosclerosis , this serious condition causes necrosis (ie death) of myocardial tissue and a reduction in the contractile capacity of the heart