Matters of the Heart
This disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. with known modifiable risk factors to include smoking, overweight and obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, inactivity and poor nutrition.
Cardiovascular disease, CVD, heart disease
This disease is defined as elevated total or low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or low levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and is an important risk factor for coronary heart disease and stroke.
Dyslipidemia
Most common symptoms include pain or discomfort in chest, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, jaw, neck or back pain, discomfort in shoulder or arm, and shortness of breath.
Heart attack
Having high levels of this can lead to plaque buildup in your arteries and result in heart disease or stroke.
LDL Cholesterol
On ECG shows a normal sinus rhythm at a rate lower than 60 beats per minute.
Sinus Bradycardia
The popularity of this annual celebration that uses a major organ to symbolize love and affection is thought to have officially started During the middle ages (1400), when the Duke of Orleans, Charles, was imprisoned during the battle of Agincourt, and wrote the first card expressing his affection to his wife in the form of a poem.
Valentines Day
The primary way harm is caused is by increasing the workload of the heart and blood vessels—making them work harder and less efficiently.
Hypertension
This discomfort is not a disease but rather a symptom of an underlying heart problem preventing the heart muscle from getting enough oxygen-rich blood. It’s often described as pressure or squeezing in the chest, but can also occur in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, abdomen or back.
Angina
Having high levels of this can lower your risk of heart disease and stroke.
HDL Cholesterol
It’s not a lie that this irregular heartbeat begins in the atria and cam lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure.
Atrial Fibrillation, A-Fib
These early physician invented "self-starters for Dead Man’s Heart" had to be wheeled around on carts and plugged into wall mains socket outlets to obtain their alternating current power.
Early pacemakers
This medication therapy for primary prevention is recommended among adults aged 40-75 years who have 1 or more cardiovascular risk factors and an estimated 10-year cardiovascular disease risk of 10% or greater.
Statin
This temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain usually dissolves on its own or gets dislodged, and while the symptoms usually last less than five minutes, requires immediate medical attention.
Transient ischemic attack, TIA
Independently, HDL and LDL, are known as good and bad cholesterol, but together known as.
Total Cholesterol
In the healthy heart, electrical stimuli are initiated in the SA node, and then conducted through the AV node and bundle of His, bundle branches and Purkinje fibers.
Normal Sinus
This disease of the heart was previously thought to be a result of contemporary lifestyle, however researchers have found probable or definite evidence of this disease in 34% of 137 mummies using whole body CT.
Atherosclerosis
Counselors can help with so much more than broken hearts, in fact, this expert task force group made evidence-based recommendation to offer adults with cardiovascular disease risk factors behavioral counseling interventions to promote a healthy diet and physical activity.
United States Preventive Serices Task force, USPSTF
This emergency event includes sudden loss of responsiveness and no normal breathing.
Cardiac Arrest
If you don't want to fast again, better make sure the lipid panel is drawn and collected right!
A green top tube.
Most aim to not make waves, but when this happens on an ECG this flatline indicates need for immediate CPR and advanced medical care.
Asystole
Today this medication is commonly used to reduce cardiac risk, with its origins traced back to the ancient Egyptians where it was harvested from the bark of the willow tree and meadowsweet flower.
Aspirin, salicin, acetylsalicylic acid.
This disease subtype is caused by a clot obstructing the flow of blood to the brain.
Ischemic stroke
Knowing this acronym can lead to earlier treatment, higher survival rates, lower disability rates and reduce the loss of brain cells that occurs on average at 1.9 million per minute a stroke goes untreated.
F.A.S.T. (face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, time to call 911)
Pediatricians and other providers should evaluate this fasting lab in children 10 years and older with overweight, BMI equal or greater than 85th percentile to less than 95th percentile, and obesity, BMI equal or greater thah 95th percentile; and may evaluate in children 2-9 years with obesity.
Lipid screening, lipid panel
This rhythm is not caused by receiving a DM from your current crush, but rather an abnormal electrical impulse from the SA node that causes uncoordinated contractions between the upper and lower chambers of the heart.
Atrial flutter, A-flutter