What clogs up heart arteries during a heart attack?!


Question: What clogs up heart arteries during a heart attack!?
Is it cholesterol and too much smoking!? if your cholesterol is normal and you do not smoke can you still have a blockage!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Coronary artery disease involves impairment of blood flow through the coronary arteries, most commonly by atheromas!. Clinical presentations include silent ischemia, angina pectoris, acute coronary syndromes (unstable angina, MI), and sudden cardiac death!. Diagnosis is by symptoms, ECG, stress testing, and sometimes coronary angiography!. Prevention consists of modifying reversible risk factors (eg, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, physical inactivity, obesity, and smoking)!. Treatment includes drugs and procedures to reduce ischemia and restore or improve coronary blood flow!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

In heart attack victims, the arteries are already markedly narrowed by pre-existing cholesterol deposits!. These become plaque, which may even be calcified!.

The heart attack itself however is due to blockage in these already narrowed vessels!. This can be due to fragments of solidified plaque breaking off and sticking in a very narrow area of the artery, frequently however it is due to sticky clumps of platelets doing the same thing!.


Risk reduction therefore consists of Statins, which not only lower cholesterol, but in the case of at least Atorvastatin, also make the plaque less brittle and thus less likely to break off, and anti-platelet drugs, ( aspirin, clopidogrel or Persantin) that reduce the risk of platelet clumping!.

'Treatment' of heart attack includes 300mgs of aspirin, clot-buster drugs, and in centres of excellence in the UK ( which are few and far between!) acute use of angioplasty!.

We all build up some cholesterol plaque but smoking, lack of exercise and poor diet all increase the problem!.
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It is possible, I have just done an assignment on this and yes cholesterol and the chemicals in cigarettes build up on the blood stream and get caught on artery walls!. These fatty deposits are called plaque!.

Your chances are decreased immensely, yet it is still possible!. Physical exercise is highly important as l as lots of leafy green vegetables and other heart-super-foods!.

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Yes, your own body produces cholesterol, it's not just from the food you eat!. Smoking does not cause cholesterol, it constricts the arteries and makes the blood flow in the arteries more difficult and puts someone with arterial disease at a greater risk for heart attack, etc!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes, it is still possible as genetics actually plays a bigger role than cholesterol!. Plaque is what builds up in arteries and eventually will block them causing the heart attack!. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol and other substances!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Usually, a piece of plaque breaks off from your arteries and goes to your heart and causes an attack Plaque results from the build up of cholesterol over the years!. Smoking narrows the arteries which makes it easier for plaque to break off!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Fat from fatty foods
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