The Most common Cause of Death

Angina

Ischemic heart disease or angina is the most common cause of death all over the world millions of people die annually due to ischemic heart disease about 30%of deaths all over the world due to ischemic heart disease

Ischemia is a medical term that means decreased blood and oxygen supply to a particular tissue which can lead to damage to the tissue if the blood supply is not increased quickly,when the heart muscle have no enough oxygen supply it leads to a special characteristic chest pain like pressure or burning of your chest and that pain can radiate to your left shoulder or arm that chest pain is known as Angina

There are many causes of angina and many types of it the mos common cause of angina is hypercholesterolemia as increased cholesterol levels in your blood can build up in the lumen of coronary arteries the arteries supplying the heart with blood leading to occlusion of the coronary , other causes as thrombus in the coronary that leads to occlusion of the vessel other causes include contraction of coronary thus decrease blood supply to the heart

Different types of angina classified according to underlying cause of chest pain: 1)first type is called angina of effort as the chest pain occurs only during exertion of an effort and pain is relieved by rest this is the most common type of angina , the patient complains of sudden chest pain like burning of chest or pressure or squeezing of chest while walking or going upstairs or doing any effort and pain is relieved by rest within minutes. 2) second type is called unstable angina it usually occurs due to thrombus formation in coronaries leading to occlusion this is associated with severe chest pain that can occur even at rest and is not relieved easily. 3) third type is called prinzmetal angina it also associated with chest pain that can occur at rest its main cause is coronary vasoconstriction that leads to sudden narrowing of coronaries and decreased blood supply to the heart

Risk factors of ischemic heart disease include uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis,and women after menopause are at high risk to develop angina but before that it is very rare for women to get ischemia

Angina is a serious condition once you feel chest pain or other symptoms you should see a doctor to protect yourself before it becomes worse , patients with angina take variety of drugs to improve their cases first of all is nitrates (nitroglycerin) which relieves chest pain at its sudden sharp onset and they also can take aspirin which prevents platelet aggregation and thrombus formation and clopidogrel which also prevent platelet aggregation and they can take beta blockers to decrease the heart demand of oxygen and if they have high levels of cholesterol and lipid drugs that lower cholesterol levels are indicated ,if the case is severe angioplasty or stent implantation is important,if not surgery is a must

Angina is  a chest pain that should not be ignored as by the time more occlusion and more narrowing occurs and it can lead to serious conditions that are untreatable as cardiac muscle death known as myocardial infarction