Angina

Angina report
By: David Fernando Cubillos 10th B
Abstract: Have you ever felt squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightness on your chest, like if someone was standing in yours? Youmay suffer Angina, a pain in the chest similar to the pain caused by indigestion that is really common to acquire.
“Angina is a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to theheart muscle. Angina is a symptom of coronary artery disease.”(1).
“Angina is caused by reduced blood flow to your heart. The most common cause of reduced blood flow is coronary arterydisease. Your coronary arteries can become narrowed by fatty deposits called plaques. This is called atherosclerosis.”(2)
When you increase the demand for oxygen (exercising) anginacan occur.
“Its symptoms include chest pain or discomfort pain in your arms, neck, jaw, shoulder or back accompanying chest pain, nausea, fatigue, breathes anxiety, sweating andfeeling dizzy.” (3)
It occurs when your heart works harder, lasts about 5-10 minutes, and disappears faster when you rest for some time.
When it is more developed it occurs even whileresting, lasts more than half hour and it doesn’t disappear by resting, it might be a signal of a heart attack.
2% of angina cases present a Prinzmetal's angina (variant angina) whichis caused by a spasm in your heart's arteries that temporarily reduces blood flow. It is often severe and usually happens while resting.
Some preventions to angina are to quitsmoking, eat a healthy diet, increase physical activity, maintain a healthy weight, and to reduce the stress.
Conclusion: People should live a healthy life, smoke and stress free, doingconstant exercise, without being lazy and staying at home for a long time, to prevent the disease and to take care of themselves by not passing their limits of they already suffer it.