Cardiovascular disease

The cardiovascular diseases are the Maladie S which relate to the Cœur and the Blood circulation. Their most current expression in the Western countries is the coronary disease which is responsible for the angina pectoris or angor and of the infarctions.

Some figures in France and in the world

That relates to for the France several hundreds of thousands of people…

The rate of death to the acute phase of the infarction improved, passing from 8,8% to 4,4% according to the last study (2006) since an urgent assumption of responsibility is carried out as of the primary symptoms.

One counts 70 with 100 000 death by Sudden death of the adult each year and on the whole, the cardiovascular diseases kill 150 000 with 180 000 people per annum, which makes of it the first cause of mortality of the country according to the years.

WHO figure to approximately 1/3 of the deaths in the world those caused by the cardiovascular diseases.

The reduction of the Risk factors cardiovascular and best dealt with therapeutic however made it possible to decrease of almost half the number of deaths of origin cardiac in the United States between 1980 and 2000.

Risk factors cardiovascular

They accelerate considerably the phenomenon Physiologique of Artériosclérose involving a rehandling of the wall of the Artères: the Athérome.

List cardiovascular diseases

Diseases of the Coronary S

Angor (or angina pectoris)
Myocardial infarction

Diseases of the cardiac muscle

Cardiomyopathie
Cardiac failure

Diseases of the cardiac valves

Endocarditis
Valvulopathies cardiac

Diseases of the Pericardium

Péricardite

Diseases of the rate/rhythm or cardiac conduction (rythmology)

cardiovascular Syncope of Turbid origin
of cardiac conduction
Turbid of the cardiac rhythm

Diseases of the vessels

Aneurism
Artériopathie obliterating of the lower extremities
aortic Dissection acute
pulmonary arterial Hypertension
thrombo-embolic Disease

Others

cardio-circulatory Stop
Cardiopathie congenital
arterial Hypertension
arterial Hypotension
Tumor S of the heart

Note

In addition, so more people were trained with the gestures of First aid, one estimates that one could pass from 2 % with 20 % of survival to a Sudden death (in 2004, approximately 6 % only of the French population is formed with the gestures of first aid).

See too

External bonds

Risk factors cardiovascular and prevention, Daniel Herpin (Poitiers) and François Ribald (Rennes), site of the University of Rennes 1
Benefit health of the Mediterranean model of consumption
French federation of cardiology
the addiction by salt
Salt and Public health policy. Recommendations of the " Work group; Salt " AFSSA

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