Thursday, November 3, 2011

Train the leg muscles were important for heart patients

Did you know that heart disease associated with the feet? Well, I also just found out now ;)

A heart attack or in medical terms often called myocardial infarction is interruption of blood flow, although only for a moment, leading to the heart, and causes some heart cells to die. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in adults in America. Each year, in the United States :
  • 1.5 million people suffered a heart attack.
  • 478,000 people die from coronary heart disease.
  • 407 000 people experience a transition operation.
  • 300 000 people undergo angioplasty.    

You must know that these factors trigger a heart attack is smoking, eating foods that contain high cholesterol, lack of movement, supine exercise, stress, and lack of rest.

But a heart attack is not only associated with heart muscle damage alone. Damage to the leg muscles is also associated with the severity of heart attack heart disease so that patients are also advised to exercise the leg muscles.  

Various studies have shown, conditions weakened leg muscles is closely related to the severity of symptoms in patients with heart disease. Similarly, on the contrary, a severe heart attack is often followed by a weakening of the muscles in the legs.

But experts from the University of Leeds revealed, exercise to train the leg muscles are very important for patients with heart disease. The benefit will be felt if one day the disease relapses, symptoms will be milder than if his leg muscles remain weak.

Chronic heart failure patients complain that his legs are stiff so it is not used for sport. The core of this research to show that with proper heating, patients can improve oxygenation in the leg muscles,   

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