Stroke

Many people are not aware that the heart diseases and stroke are among major threats to the health. Heart diseases are major causes of death among the women in United States , while stroke is numbering at three. Disease related to heart and stroke is major cause for the long-term disability as well. Heart disease's common form is coronary artery disease, in it; plaque builds up on walls of arteries and carries out blood to heart. Over the times, it builds up causes arteries to harden and narrow. It keeps heart from getting of all the blood it needs for. Clots of blood may also develop. Heart attack causes due to clot mostly or a complete block blood flow to heart.

 

In women, warning signs are overlooked; prompt treatment can also help the women to recover from heart attack or the stroke having no or few disabilities. Mostly, stroke happens when brain does not get enough blood. Having short amount of blood, cells in brain starts dieing, but good news is to take the steps to lower chances of having heart attack or the stroke You can commit to the healthy-heart living, no matter what age is yours.

 

Efforts of health promotion for heart disease as well as stroke have employed traditionally a health education approach that focused on major behavioral and biomedical risk factors.

Such factors of risks include elevated blood cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, physical inactivity, poor diet, and cigarette smoking.

 

Intervention and programs for the risk factor have also been designed as well as implemented base on health education paradigm. That assumes that the providing behavior and education change tools to the individuals and help to achieve the lifestyle improvements that can lower prevalence of adverse conditions of risks at population level. But in recent years some growing awareness of importance of the social environmental and changing in policy in promoting healthy-heart and the stroke-free communities has provide the result for health disease control.