Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest in Men
You've heard the terms a million times. But do you really know the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest? Here's what every guy needs to know.Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest in Men
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Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest in Men
Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest in Men
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Why do young, fit men die playing sports?
By Health Xchange | Fit to Post Health
An underlying heart condition may be the cause of sudden deaths in sport events. (Health Xchange)
Just four days after English Premier League midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered cardiac arrest during an English FA Cup match, Indian footballer Venkatesh suffered a similar fate during a match in Bangalore, India.
The 27-year-old Venkatesh, who was playing in a district level league match on March 21, collapsed on the field during the back end of the match.
While 23-year-old Muamba is in hospital in London recovering from his mid-match cardiac arrest, Venkatesh did not survive.
In a similar incident in Singapore a week earlier, 19-year-old Temasek Polytechnic student Muhammad Khairil Muhamad Nizam suddenly collapsed halfway through a friendly football match.
He was rushed to the hospital in an unconscious state but didn't survive. While investigations are underway into his death, initial reports indicated that he had died of heart failure.
There have been other previous sudden death incidences related to sports in Singapore. Last year, a 22-year-old Singaporean runner, Malcolm Sng Wei Ren, collapsed and died during the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore.
What can explain such unexpected deaths?According to doctors, these sudden deaths in otherwise healthy and fit sportsmen may be explained by an underlying heart problem, compounded by vigorous physical exertion.
Dr Reginald Liew, consultant at the Department of Cardiology and deputy director of the research and development unit at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) said an underlying heart problem could include:
- a heart muscle disorder (e.g. abnormal thickening of heart muscles)
- an electrical problem (e.g. abnormal heart rhythm)
- an infection weakening the heart muscle
- a congenital abnormality of the coronary arteries
"The first two of these causes often have a genetic predisposition, meaning they may be related to certain mutations," Liew said. Given the appropriate stimuli and triggers, all four scenarios, he explained, could result in ventricular fibrillation: the heart ventricles don't contract properly, which may cause the heart to stop suddenly.
Related article: Sudden cardiac arrest — not so random as it looks
Who's at risk?Sometimes, the victim is found to have a family history of sudden death. But sudden cardiac arrest can also occur in healthy individuals without any known pre-existing heart issues and with no known family history of sudden death.
Liew added that there are screening tests available for the detection of heart muscle diseases and heart electrical disorders. For example, an echocardiogram can detect the former, and 12-lead ECG, the latter.
Related article: What heart disease symptoms should you look out for?
What can you do to lessen your risk of heart disease?
- Have your cholesterol levels checked once a year. Excess cholesterol can cause the blood flow to the heart to become blocked or reduced.
- Get your blood pressure checked yearly. If your blood pressure is persistently above 140/90mmHg and left untreated, it can result in damage to the heart and blood vessels.
- Control your diabetes and monitor your blood sugar levels.
- Lose excess body fat, especially around the waist.
- Exercise regularly to help prevent heart and blood vessel disease. Just check with your doctor first if you have known coronary artery disease or if you're above 40 years of age and have been inactive.
- Quit smoking. Smokers have two to three times the risk of non-smokers of sudden cardiac death. In fact, smokers account for about 40 per cent of deaths caused by heart disease in patients who are younger than 65 years.
- Manage your stress. Prolonged stress may contribute to a heart attack. Emotional stress and tension also cause the body to produce adrenaline, which makes the heart pump faster and harder, and may also cause the blood vessels to narrow down.
This article was written by the Health Xchange Editor, with expert input from the Department ofCardiology and Research and Development Unit at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS).
Find more health-related tips and articles on HealthXchange.com.sg, Singapore's trusted health and lifestyle portal. Health Xchange's articles are meant for informational purposes only and cannot replace professional surgical, medical or health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment.
All the junkfoods and chemically-laced preserved food stuck in the guts for years and mutated into toxins and re-introduce to the blood via the intestinal villi - this is a more probable cause of most of the diseases including sudden death as the "toxins" can mutate into so many possibilities ie: cholesterol, uric acid, assorted bad bacteria: some of these that are cancer-forming. So clean your guts and plugged your mouth from junks (creation of men) and seafoods and eat natural (boiled, raw juiced, natural fruits, veggies, rootcrops) and you will never go wrong. Take it from God - (1Timothy 4:4) "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.."
Cardiac Doctors always have the last say!? Why not specialists in Lung illnesses and weak conditions? I know of a young man who died because of a torn lung? Due to disconnected or poorly co-ordinated growth which implicates hormonal effects in genetically modified food?
Come out with the truth for all our young people.
Come out with the truth for all our young people.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
When Your Heart Stops ...
“Get yourselves a new heart.” Ezekiel 18:31
What a dependable little organ is the human heart! Every day, including Sundays and all holidays, this little engine keeps on pumping nonstop. And it continues even while we sleep.
The heart never complains about the weather and never asks for a vacation. It works best when treated well, but continues to serve even when working conditions are stressful.
How much we need the heart! If one eye is blind, we can still see with the other. If one ear is deaf, we can hear with the other. If we lose a leg, we can still walk with a crutch. But we only have one heart.
While We Live
Our “pumping machine” is about the size of one’s fist and weighs just a little more than half a pound. It beats about 70 times a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day, and 36,792,000 times a year. The heart of a 70-year-old person has beaten over 2.5 billion times.
The heart can generate enough energy in 12 hours to lift a 65 ton tank car one foot off the ground. It pumps about 650,000 gallons of blood per year, or enough to fill more than 81 tank cars of 8,000 gallons each.
According to one encyclopedia, the heart pumps blood through about 12,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. That is about the distance from New York City to Hong Kong, China by way of the Panama Canal.
Although this organ that keeps our blood constantly circulating can be weakened by disease and abuse, it generally gives excellent, ceaseless service for many years before it finally stops. When that happens we die.
When We Die
This brings us to a very personal but very important question: If your heart should stop five minutes from now, would you go to heaven with the redeemed or to hell with the lost?
I hope you can say the following with assurance: “Yes, I know that when I die I will go to heaven. I have turned to God in repentance, and received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. I have put my trust in His precious blood shed on Calvary’s cross to atone for my sins. In doing so I have received the gift of God, which is eternal life. So I know I will go to heaven when I die.”
But maybe all you can say is this: “No, I do not know where I will go after my heart stops pumping, but I would really like to know for sure.” If this is the case, read on.
The Bible tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). The word “all” includes you and me. In fact, it includes everybody. But the Bible also says that “Christ died for our sins” - yours as well as mine (1 Cor. 15:3).
What We Can Do
To receive God’s free gift of salvation, the Bible says we must trust Jesus Christ as our personal Savior: “As many as received Him (Jesus), to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (Jn. 1:12).
Here’s how to receive Jesus as your Savior: Ask Him to come into your life, to take away your sins, and to help you live for Him? Do this now, and should your heart stop in five minutes, you will know where you will spend eternity.
By Fred Cowell
Grace & Truth Magazine February 2000
What a dependable little organ is the human heart! Every day, including Sundays and all holidays, this little engine keeps on pumping nonstop. And it continues even while we sleep.
The heart never complains about the weather and never asks for a vacation. It works best when treated well, but continues to serve even when working conditions are stressful.
How much we need the heart! If one eye is blind, we can still see with the other. If one ear is deaf, we can hear with the other. If we lose a leg, we can still walk with a crutch. But we only have one heart.
While We Live
Our “pumping machine” is about the size of one’s fist and weighs just a little more than half a pound. It beats about 70 times a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day, and 36,792,000 times a year. The heart of a 70-year-old person has beaten over 2.5 billion times.
The heart can generate enough energy in 12 hours to lift a 65 ton tank car one foot off the ground. It pumps about 650,000 gallons of blood per year, or enough to fill more than 81 tank cars of 8,000 gallons each.
According to one encyclopedia, the heart pumps blood through about 12,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. That is about the distance from New York City to Hong Kong, China by way of the Panama Canal.
Although this organ that keeps our blood constantly circulating can be weakened by disease and abuse, it generally gives excellent, ceaseless service for many years before it finally stops. When that happens we die.
When We Die
This brings us to a very personal but very important question: If your heart should stop five minutes from now, would you go to heaven with the redeemed or to hell with the lost?
I hope you can say the following with assurance: “Yes, I know that when I die I will go to heaven. I have turned to God in repentance, and received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. I have put my trust in His precious blood shed on Calvary’s cross to atone for my sins. In doing so I have received the gift of God, which is eternal life. So I know I will go to heaven when I die.”
But maybe all you can say is this: “No, I do not know where I will go after my heart stops pumping, but I would really like to know for sure.” If this is the case, read on.
The Bible tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). The word “all” includes you and me. In fact, it includes everybody. But the Bible also says that “Christ died for our sins” - yours as well as mine (1 Cor. 15:3).
What We Can Do
To receive God’s free gift of salvation, the Bible says we must trust Jesus Christ as our personal Savior: “As many as received Him (Jesus), to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (Jn. 1:12).
Here’s how to receive Jesus as your Savior: Ask Him to come into your life, to take away your sins, and to help you live for Him? Do this now, and should your heart stop in five minutes, you will know where you will spend eternity.
By Fred Cowell
Grace & Truth Magazine February 2000
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