Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition

Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition 3(2+1)

Lesson 26:Cardiovascular and atherosclerosis – causes, symptoms

Causes leading to heart diseases

• Coronary artery disease
• Angina pectoris: pain in the chest provoked by exercise
• Hypertension
• Peripheral artery disease
• Rheumatic heart disease
• Congenital heart disease
• Chronic inability of the heart to maintain an adequate output of the blood from the ventricles leads to congestion or over distension of veins
• Atherosclerosis
• Thickening of walls of small arteries due to ageing or hypertension