Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Heart Attack

Other Cardiovascular Agents Effecting Atherosclerosis. A large amount of clinical data is available concerning semm Upid profiles in patients subjected to dmg therapy for other cardiovascular diseases. Atheroma, for example, may be the underlying cause of hypertension and myocardial infarction. There are on the order of 1.5 million heart attacks pet year in the United States (155). 

Cardiovascular disease Any abnormal condition characterized by dysfunction of the heart and blood vessels. CVD includes atherosclerosis (especially coronary heart disease, which can lead to heart attacks), cerebrovascular disease (e.g., stroke), and hypertension (high blood pressure). [NIH]... 

As noted above, obesity is a health problem. It is associated with both elevated mortality and morbidity. More specifically, obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, and for high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, and hyperlipidemia (elevated levels of lipids in the blood, a risk factor for atherosclerosis and its sequelae), and for cancer. 

Congestive heart failure is the reduction of the heart s pumping ability to subnormal levels. This in turn results in fluid accumulation in the lungs and body extremities, which is a condition called edema. The edema is accompanied by pulmonary congestion and shortness of breath. The actual cause of congestive heart failure (CHF) is damage to the myocardium. This damage may in turn be due to severe hypertension, atherosclerosis, rheumatic fever, birth defects, or heart attacks. 

Although we have discussed briefly the implications of biochemical individuality for alcoholism, for gout, and for arthritis, these are merely examples. A host of other diseases need to be attacked with the same point of view and hold the same promise of success. These include multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, atherosclerosis, essential hypertension, ulcers, diabetes, epilepsy, rheumatic heart disease, nephrosis, liver cirrhosis, congenital heart disease (as well as a host of other malformations which probably involve nutritional deficiencies during fetal life) and even infective diseases such as tuberculosis or poliomyelitis. 

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