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From the ancient times persons knew that human heart is such an important source of life, no man or woman could do without it. From those times the heart is a symbol of something completely important and necessary for the very survival of any man. That is probably why our speech is full of sentences mentioning the heart.

People used to consider that the power of any man is in the heart. Some nations were sure human soul resides in the heart, others we sure every wish, either light or evil, is born in the heart, that is why they stated that a bad man has a black heart beating in the chest!

“You are my heart” - so we say about the most important person in our life. The personality able of fascinating everybody gets the nickname of “the heart of the company”. When something bad happens to our friends or relatives we always try to persuade them not “to take it all to heart”. A savagedreadful and careless man or woman is called “heartless”. And if someone really enjoys eating we refer him or her to “hearty eaters”. Doubtlessly you can expand this list with your own examples demonstrating how important is the heart for humans!

Today having every part of knowledge modern science provides us with we do understand that the heart is nothing but an organ, but it keeps counting throbs in joy when we are happy and continues crying when we have bad periods of our lives. God only knows, maybe that is the reason why numerous failures in the functioning of human hearts are responsible for the quarter of the total deaths all over the world! Let us get important tips about the heart to recognize the first symptoms of any heart disorder and to be able to keep your personal biological motor in perfect health!

Your heart just as hearts of all animals, is a hollow muscular organ of the body’s circulatory system. It is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels. Its constant rhythmic contractions pump as much as 5-6 liters of blood every minute, about 360 liters of blood every hour and 8 000 - 10 000 liters of blood daily! Normal contraction rate of any healthy grownup man or woman is about 60-80 a minute, i.e. about 4 500 contractions an hour or 100 000 - 108 000 daily! Sounds unbelivable, doesn’t it! MDs ofter refer heart illnesses to cardiac affairs. The point is term cardiac comes from the Greek “kardia” meaning “related to the heart”. Our hearts are very complicated. Normal work of the heart and numerous heart disease called cardiopathies are carefully studied by cardiology.

Human heart is divided into four chambers. The two upper chambers are called the left and right atria, while the two lower chambers are called the right and left ventricles. Sometimes docs speak about the right heart (right atrium and right ventricle together) and the left heart (the left atrium and left ventricle together).

As a rule human heart is as large as a fist, it occupies the middle of the chest, it is a little shifted to the left and it weighs as much as 250 and 350 grams.

As it has been mentioned before, the basic work of the heart is pumping blood, but this activity is a very complicated affair! The heart always moves our blood in one direction. It flows from the atria to the ventricles and moves on through arteries. Powerful triscupid, mitral, aortic and pulmonary valves in the heart prevent the blood from going backwards. It is very important because the heart simultaneously moves de-oxygenated blood towards the lungs and oxygenated blood to every system and organ of our body!

The right heart is responsible for gathering de-oxygenated blood in its atrium and pumping it through the ventricle straight into the lungs, where carbon dioxide is dropped off (when we breathe out) and oxygen picked up (when we inhale). This occurs with the help of red blood cells taking part in the process of diffusion.

The left heart is responsible for gathering oxygenated blood from the lungs in its atrium and sending it through the ventricle and via the aorta out to the body. As you have already guessed, a much greater power is needed to send the blood through the large systemic circulation. That explains why the muscle wall surrounding the left ventricle is much thicker than that of the right ventricle moving the blood directly into the lungs.

The bulk of men and women recklessly think their unique biological ticker will always serve them and they never do a thing to help it. As some cardiologists remind, you have a healthy heart if it never reminds you of the fact it is there, in your chest and keeps working 24/7. Unfortunately, personalities start thinking about the heart only when it fails them for the first time when it is to late to prevent a trouble.

Are you aware of the fact what habits, lifestyles and behavior injure your unique biological engine? First of all, stressful jobs and family relations make your heart tick at a mad speed. Lack of sleep and rest, a stream of negative emotions and the feeling of hopelessness make the situation worse. Bad ecology, insufficient recreations give some strain to your heart, too. Junk and fast food, irregular meals and wrong diets do not provide your heart with elements necessary for its flawless functioning. Lack of physical exercise make your heart muscles weaker, as a result your ticker is not always able of managing extra strain. Try not to forget that extra heavy physical activity constantly forces your heart to work at the top of its abilities making it wear out.

Any health disorders you ever had or have now affect your heart, too. To guarantee your soon recovery your tireless ticker doubles and triples its efforts and keeps sending blood through your vessels when you have a fever, when you are intoxicated or when you have to fight some infection! Excess weight, hypertension, and high cholesterol greatly increase the risk of getting a heart disease, too.

To help your heart be healthy:

- avoid mental stress and strain;
- try to obtain stable position in life;
- think positive, be optimistic, avoid overreacting;
- walk a lot, go in for some sport;
- choose a well-balanced diet;
- control your body weight and blood pressure.

Please, make an appointment with your doc at once if:

- you feel your heart working in your chest;
- you are short of breath without considerable physical activity;
- you have trouble breathing (blood may back up into the lungs);
- you have pain in the chest (meaning the heart muscle is not getting enough blood flow);
- your heart feels unusually big;
- your legs and feet swell (blood is backing up from in the lower body);
- you feel weak (the body and brain do not get enough blood to supply them with oxygen);
- your skin and lips turn blue (too little oxygen is in the bloodstream to supply the cells in the body);
- your heart beats irregularly (palpitations).

Those could be the first signs of a heart disease!

Heart disease is a general term for a wide range of troubles with the heart. Physicians use the word cardiopathy. Irrestective of the term, any heart trouble means that the biological motor does not work as it should.

The short classification of heart troubles includes congenital heart diseases and acquired heart diseases. Congenital heart diseases are the heart problems a baby is born with. Acquired heart diseases are those troubles that are developed by people in the course of their lives. The majority of heart diseases are acquired ones.

Cardiologists warn there are three common kinds of acquired heart diseases:

1. The defect with the blood vessels delivering blood to the heart muscle - so called Coronary Artery Disease. The blood vessels in question get thinner, some of them can be blocked, that is why blood cannot get through them at normal speed, finally the heart muscle cannot work as it should, it becomes weak and thin. In the most difficult cases the blood flow stops altogether and the heart muscle dies. Coronary Artery Disease is believed to be hereditary, but it develops if a man smokes or drinks too much alcohol, has a history of diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension.
2. When the heart cannot pump blood at normal levels we face Congestive Heart Failure. In some cases the valves of the heart do not let through enough blood because they are too thin. They can let some blood flow backwards in the wrong direction, i.e. inside the heart. Forced to do extra work, the heart gets tired or fatigued and its muscle becomes too weak to cope with any serious strain.
3. The problem with electrical activity in the heart is known as Bad Heart Rhythms. The heart can beat too fast or too slow without any plausible reason. The trouble is our heart can pump the blood well only if it has normal rhythm. Otherwise this task becomes next to impossible. With the fast rhythm the heart does not have enough time to let the right amount of blood into the chambers, as a result the ticker pumps too little blood with each beat. With the slow rhythm the heart does not make enough contractions to supply the body with the proper quantity of blood. Extremely bad heart rhythms can prevent the heart from pumping any blood at all.

The sad point is that your tireless engine can become the cause of your instant death! But in fact the things are not as bad as that! Day by day contemporary pharmacology keeps saving hundreds of lives of men and women suffering from various heart disorders.

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