Causes Of Heart Failure

Heart failure is serious disease that contributes to death of heart disease. In order to accomplish this essay, I have used four key terms ,which are heart failure, causes, signs, us adults, in electronic data base. Heart failure is one of most medical problem that physicians face. It is characterized as a serious problem because heart failure cannot be cured but only can be managed (1). It is also considered as one of life style disease. It has many causes that is related to patients' life style. There are many symptoms and signs show if the person has a risk for heart failure such as chest pain and pain in the left arm. Heart failure's definition is obvious from its term. Heart stops working due to lack of oxygen(1). Lack of oxygen in the artery that is coming from lung to the heart. This artery called coronary artery. The lack of oxygen in this artery is due to blocking of this artery. In this case, heart starts to adapt this condition by many ways. First, heart champers enlarge, heart contracting cells get bigger, and heart pumps faster. All these adaptive ways that heart uses just to provide body organs with enough
oxygenated blood. Also heart pumps blood to more important organs than less important organs. After these adaption, heart cannot work longer, so heart failure occurs. The other heart diseases could be a major reason of heart failure such as high blood pressure and coronary artery disease.
Also these heart diseases comes from bad life style. The bad life style habits such as smoking and less exercise. Heart failure may occur as a result of age. Another disease, like diabetes, may also cause heart failure. Heart failure sometimes is hereditary that occur as a result of defect in heart at birth. Lung disease is one of causes because when lungs does not work well, heart should work harder to deliver oxygen to body organs. There are many symptoms that show if the person has or will have heart failure or not. For example, high heart rate, shortness of breathing, and chronic coughing. Also impairment in the ability to think and accumulation of fluid (edema) could be signs of heart
failure. More than five thousands cases of heart failure are diagnosed every year in United States. This large number of cases is due to large number of smokers and obesity in U.S. According to American Heart Association, more than five millions people in United States have heart failure. This high number of infected patients costs more than thirty two billions every year. Although there is medical treatment and managing, more than half of cases die within 5 years of infection. According to study done by Center for disease control and prevention during 2011-2013, Texas is one of the areas that have high death rate of heart failure.