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• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Cardiovascular diseases

  • They are diseases that affect the heart and the blood vessels
  • They include 1:Varicose veins,2: Thrombosis,3: Hypertension or high blood pressure and 4: Arteriosclerosis
• • Thrombosis is the formation of a clot in the blood vessels
  • It is caused when the wall of the artery become increasingly fibrous hence lose its elasticity or when cholesterol accumulates on the arterial wall or when internal bleeding
  • It's dangerous because it hinders the smooth supply of oxygen and nutrients to the body organs
• Hypertension is an increase in blood pressure
• Arteriosclerosis is hardening of the arteries due to aging or other factors such as smoking, alcoholism, diabetes etc.
• Arteriosclerosis is hardening of the arteries due to deposition of fatty substances on their walls which leads to narrowing of the lumen of the arteries
• Coronary thrombosis: it the formation of a clot in the coronary artery

  Cerebral thrombosis: formation of a clot in the vessels pumping to the brain where the brain cells are deprived of oxygen and nutrients results to a stroke

  • A stroke may lead to death
• Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

  • Healthy feeding habbits
  • Having regular exercises
  • Avoid excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages
  • Not smoking cigarettes and other related drugs
  • Intake of less salts
  • Avoid general body stress
• The most common cause of cardiac arrest is myocardial infarction (heart attack)
• Myocardial infarction is the sudden blockage of one or more coronary arteries by a blood clot that prevents blood flow to part of the heart muscle
• Myocardial infarction occurs when there is blockage of one or more of the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle