Heart Disease - What Is The variation between Organic Heart Disease And Degenerative Heart Disease?

The New Heart Threat

Although Heart Disease is the main cause of death in the Western World it is phenomenal how limited the general public verily know about it.

For example very few population comprehend that there isn't just one type of Heart Disease. In fact there are at least ten different types and these fall into two inevitable categories - Organic and Degenerative.

The major divergence in the middle of Organic and Degenerative Heart Disease is their causes.

Organic refers to a situation where the organ (the heart) is damaged by a specific event. This can also be referred to as "acute", which simply means that it happened suddenly or over a short duration of time. Degenerative Heart Disease (sometimes referred to as "chronic") is caused by gradual deterioration over a long duration of time.

There are two types of Organic H.D. - Congenital and Rheumatic .

Defects that occur at birth are classed as Congenital Heart Disease. These may sway the heart itself : it may not have advanced commonly during pregnancy, the wall of the heart may be damaged (hole in the heart), or the blood vessels may be underdeveloped. These defects may be hereditary or more likely have been caused by external factors such as drugs or infection during pregnancy. They are commonly diagnosed at birth or in early childhood but it is not uncommon for the symptoms to occur for the first time in adulthood..

Rheumatic Heart Disease can be the ensue of a bout of rheumatic fever. Occurrences have decreased considerably due to the use of antibiotics to treat rheumatic fever.

There are at least eight specific diseases, which fall into the category of Degenerative Heart Disease. The coarse factors within this category are that the disease has progressed gently and that there is no specific event that has caused it.

The vast majority of population who are diagnosed with Heart Disease have some form of degenerative heart disease. This is the form of disease that is the target of the awareness campaigns and is the type that we can help to forestall by our lifestyles choices.

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