What are cardiovascular diseases?
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are diseases that affect the heart or blood vessels (veins and arteries). They can be caused by a combination of behavioral, socioeconomic and environmental risk factors, including improper diet (daily consumption of meat, fish, eggs, dairy products that are a source of cholesterol), tobacco use, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, air pollution, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, kidney disease [...]
HEART ARRHYTHMIA
How to recognize cardiac arrhythmia? Symptoms do not always develop, but if they do, the onset is usually sudden and palpitations (irregular heartbeats) occur. Other symptoms include: mild headache, which can sometimes lead to fainting, shortness of breath, chest pain. Possible complications are stroke and heart failure. How does cardiac arrhythmia occur? [...]
