Understanding the heart disease
The blood circulation system inside our body can be likened to roadways of a complex city with million of businesses and homes to be supplied with food, fuel, and other necessities.
Imagine that all these provisions are provided by public transports running through the freeways of the city.
Over the years, however, the buses, trucks and the vans have been littering the city with the trash thrown out of their window.
As a result, now there is traffic jam and supplies are not delivered timely and properly due accumulated garbage along the highways. The city is being choked off from its environment because of the garbage-clogged highways.
Same situation happens with your heart.
The first sign of constricted blood flow (the traffic jam) is gripping chest pain known as angina pectoris. The worst situation is when your heart artery has been completely blocked and you suffer a massive heart attack.
If this happens elsewhere in your body, the clogged artery can result in the damage of tissue. The process is called atherosclerosis - an accumulation of plaque made up of a cholesterol-fat mixture and other.
When it occurs in the artery that feeds your heart, it can lead to heart disease and ultimately a heart attack.
If it happens in your brain, plaque causes stroke.
