What is angina

What is angina

What is angina

The heart is an important muscle in the human body. It is characterized by its conical shape. It pumps oxygen and food to all parts of the body, as well as returning carbon dioxide blood to the lungs to purify it. Through coronary arteries, the heart gets its food from oxygenated blood, But in some cases there is a lack of blood that passes through the coronary arteries feeding the heart, which causes imbalance between the consumption of the heart for food and food, which causes the incidence of angina or angina.

Causes of angina

  • The accumulation of a large percentage of harmful cholesterol on the wall of the coronary arteries, leading to some complications, such as: Bleeding, ulceration and calcification, leading to heart attack, as well as increased cholesterol in the blood increases the risk of angina, so it is better not to increase cholesterol 200 mg / dl of blood.
  • As a result of aging, where there is a severe narrowing of the arteries as the age of man, which leads to this problem.
  • Such as: coronary atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, which causes irregular blood flow within the arteries, diabetes, obesity and underactivity, as well as some mental or psychological stress.
  • Some of the wrong behaviors that some people follow, especially smoking, which causes adhesion of platelets and shrink arteries, as well as reduce the proportion of oxygen and increase the proportion of carbon dioxide.

Classification of angina

Stable heart attack

This type occurs because myocardial ischemia resulting from physical exertion and activity, which have a few symptoms disappear at rest or after the treatment of sublingual nitroglycerin.

An unstable heart attack

This type occurs unexpectedly, may occur even at rest time, take longer and do not disappear at rest, or take medications for angina, which is more dangerous than stable heart attack.

Symptoms of angina

  • Feeling pain in different areas of the body; such as: hands, neck, shoulders and back, plus pain on the left side of the chest.
  • Feeling nauseous and uncomfortable.
  • Severe sweating with a feeling of shortness of breath.
  • Feeling general weakness and being unable to do the usual daily activities.
  • Inability to balance with dizziness and dizziness.
  • Feeling very cold with coldness in the extremities, and feeling very anxious.
  • The condition of indigestion.