by Karen | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorised
What is the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest? A heart attack happens when the flow of blood is blocked or partially blocked in the coronary artery and the heart muscle cannot get a blood supply. The blood carries oxygen which is needs for the...
by Karen | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorised
Heart Attack What is a heart attack? The clinical name for a heart attack is a myocardial infarction. Your heart is a muscle and in order to operate it needs a blood supply. The blood supply to the heart muscle comes through the coronary arteries. These are the red...
by Karen | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorised
Stress and Heart Disease More research is needed to determine how stress contributes to heart disease. But stress may affect behaviors and factors that increase heart disease risk: high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and...
by Karen | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorised
Age As you get older so do your blood vessels. They become less flexible and blood tends to move through them more slowly. As we get older there is also some plaque build up. Call back First Name*Phone*EmailThis field is for validation purposes and should be...
by Karen | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorised
Gender and Heart Disease Heart disease was once known as the man’s disease. After the menopause when women lose their protective hormones they begin to catch up and surpass men. Women and Heart...
by Karen | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorised
Family History Family history of heart disease: If you have a family history of heart disease you have an increased risk of developing heart disease. You are considered to have a family history of cardiovascular disease if Your father or brother was under 55 years of...
by Karen | Mar 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
Alcohol Alcohol and heart disease are strongly linked. Below please see the recommendations for both men and women. Men: 17 standard drinks (=170 grams (or 210 mls) of pure alcohol), spread out over the course of the week with at least two to three alcohol free days...
by Karen | Mar 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
Cholesterol Cholesterol is a type of fat that is found in your body. When your blood carries too much cholesterol it begins to stick to the walls of your arteries and this will narrow the artery. It is important therefore to keep your cholesterol within normal...
by Karen | Mar 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
Blood Pressure What is blood pressure? Blood pressure measures how strongly blood presses against the walls of the arteries as it is pumped around your body by your heart. About 30-40% of people in Ireland have high blood pressure but many don’t know. The only way...
by Karen | Mar 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
Smoking and heart disease Smoking is one of the major risk factors of heart disease. The chemicals in tobacco smoke cause damage to the structure of your heart. They also damage the walls of the arteries. This damage causes a risk of atherosclerosis which is a waxy...
