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Causes

Coronary heart disease is usually caused by a condition called atherosclerosis, which occurs when fatty material and a substance called plaque build up on the walls of your arteries. This causes them to get narrow. As the coronary arteries narrow, blood flow to the heart can slow down or stop. This can cause chest pain (stable angina), shortness of breath, heart attack and other symptoms. Acute Myocardial Infarction or CHD, is the leading cause of death in the United States for men and women.

Many things increase your risk for heart disease:

• Men in their 40s have a higher risk of CHD than women. But as women get older (especially after they reach menopause), their risk increases to almost equal that of a man. See: Heart disease and women.
• Bad genes (heredity) can increase your risk. You are more likely to develop the condition if someone in your family has had a history of heart disease - especially if they had it before the age of 50. Your risk for CHD goes up as you get older.
• Diabetes is a strong risk factor for heart disease.
• High blood pressure increases your risk of coronary artery disease and heart failure.
• Abnormal cholesterol levels: your LDL ("bad") cholesterol should be as low as possible, and your HDL ("good") cholesterol should be as high as possible.
• Metabolic syndrome refers to high triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, excess body fat around the waist and increased insulin levels. People with this set of problems have an increased chance of getting heart disease.
• Smokers have a much higher risk of heart disease than non-xsmokers.
• Chronic kidney disease can increase your risk.
• Already having atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries in another part of your body (for example stroke and abdominal aortic aneurysm) increases your risk of having coronary heart disease.
• Other risk factors including alcohol abuse, not getting enough exercise and excessive amounts of stress.

Higher-than-normal levels of inflammation-related substances, such as C-reactive protein and fibrinogen are being studied as possible indicators of an increased risk for heart disease. Increased levels of a chemical called homocysteine, an amino acid, are also linked to an increased risk of a heart attack.

Symptoms

Symptoms may be very noticeable, but sometimes you can have the disease and not have any symptoms. Chest pain or discomfort (angina) is the most common symptom. You feel this pain when the heart is not getting enough blood or oxygen. How bad the pain is varies from person to person.

• It may feel heavy or like someone is squeezing your heart. You feel it under your breast bone (sternum), but also in your neck, arms, stomach, or upper back.
• The pain usually occurs with activity or emotion, and goes away with rest or a medicine called nitroglycerin.
• Other symptoms include shortness of breath and fatigue with activity (exertion).

Tests may include:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG)
• Exercise stress test
• Echocardiogram
• Nuclear scan
• Electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) to look for calcium in the lining of the arteries - the more calcium, the higher your chance for CHD
• CT angiography - a non-invasive way to perform coronary angiography
• Magnetic resonance angiography
• Coronary angiography/arteriography - an invasive procedure designed to evaluate the heart arteries under x-ray

Goals for treating these conditions in those who have coronary artery disease are:

• LDL cholesterol level less than or equal to 100 mg/dL
• Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels less than or equal to 7%
• Blood pressure less than or equal to 120/80 mmHg

Taking aspirin with or without clopidogrel helps prevent blood clots from forming in your arteries and reduces your risk of having a heart attack. Ask your doctor if you should be taking these. Treatment depends on your symptoms and how severe the disease is.

Your doctor may give you one or more medicines to treat CHD, including:

• ACE inhibitors to lower blood pressure and protect your heart
• Beta-blockers to lower heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen use by the heart
• Calcium channel blockers to relax arteries, lowering blood pressure and reducing strain on the heart
• Diuretics to lower blood pressure and treat congestive heart failure
• Nitrates (such as nitroglycerin) to stop chest pain and improve blood supply to the heart
• Statins to lower cholesterol

NEVER ABRUPTLY STOP TAKING ANY OF THESE DRUGS. Always talk to your doctor first. Stopping these drugs suddenly can make your angina worse or cause a heart attack.

Procedures and surgeries used to treat CHD include:

• Angioplasty and stent placement, called percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs)
• Coronary artery bypass surgery
• Minimally invasive heart surgery

Lifestyle changes are very important. Your doctor may tell you to:

• Avoid or reduce the amount of salt (sodium) you eat
• Eat a heart healthy diet - one that is low in saturated fats, cholesterol and trans fat
• Get regular exercise and maintain a healthy weight
• Keep your blood sugar strictly under control if you have diabetes
• Stop smoking

We, at ReeCure offer you therapy using stem cells using our proprietary technology.

These stem cells could be of various types viz. Hematopoietic (CD 34+), Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that are processed and isolated using Good Manufacturing (GMP) and Good Lab Practices (GLP) and in accordance with AABB standards.

After years of extensive research and systematic compilation and collation of relevant data (through its research division), ReeLabs is now supremely confident of not only reversing the disease process of the affected patient but also improving the quality of life manifold. Stem cells produced by ReeLabs are completely safe, non-toxic, easy to administer and totally devoid of side effects with an excellent probability of homing and engraftment with parent cell, tissue or organ. The eminent panel of scientists and researchers at ReeLabs work exhaustively to design accurate treatment protocols that have yielded excellent results in most cases.

These stem cells are procured from various sources including bone marrow, cord blood, fat etc. as per the requirement of the patient. Patients with congestive heart failure have shown excellent results using stem cell therapy. This is especially true of patients with heart failure.

The observations are:

• Decreases infarct size.
• Improves blood circulation to the heart.
• Improves general pumping capacity of the heart.
• Prevents progression to heart failure
• Prevents incidence of another heart attack
• Improves quality of life.