★ Cardiovascular disease. Heart diseases.
47 videos • 10,007 views • by ★ GOOD CHANNEL Cardiovascular diseases, along with cancer and diabetes, firmly holds the primacy among the most common and dangerous diseases XX, and now the XXI century. Rampant in the old days, a terrible epidemic of plague, smallpox, typhoid fever are gone, but their place was left empty. New times and meet new diseases. XX century the future of medicine rightly call "the era of cardiovascular disease." Why exactly these diseases were so widespread? The reasons for this are many, will focus only on some of them. In recent years there has been a significant increase in diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis. Most of suffering from these diseases are doomed to chronic administration of chemotherapeutic agents. However, it is well known that prolonged use of chemotherapy can cause a number of adverse events, such as drug allergies, resistance to several drugs, violation of gastrointestinal motility, venous cerebral dementia. Risk factors of occurrence and development of cardiovascular disease are many, but perhaps the main one - atherosclerosis. Many research teams of the world are engaged in the problem of atherosclerosis, development of tools that can withstand the expansion of atherosclerosis, something that has actually used in clinical practice. This involves not only synthesized pharmaceuticals, the majority of which has dangerous side effects, but the raw materials of drugs of plant and animal origin, biologically active additives. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death worldwide: for no other reason, do not die every year many people as CVD. It is estimated that in 2008, died from CVDs of 17.3 million people, accounting for 30% of all deaths in the world. Of this number, 7.3 million people died of coronary heart disease and 6.2 million were due to stroke. Heart disease is accompanied by all kinds of diseases affecting the cardiovascular system. Basically it heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and kidney disease, and peripheral artery disease. Causes of heart disease are varied, but the most common - atherosclerosis and hypertension. In addition, with age, a number of physiological and morphological changes that disrupt function of the heart and blood vessels, and subsequently lead to increased risk of heart disease, even in healthy people without symptoms.