Category: Heart Disease FAQ

Signs of blood clots in the leg: Clot in artery - pain, pallor, coldness, loss of sensation and paralysis. Clot in vein - pain, swelling and bluish colour.

Cardiovascular benefits of exercise: Exercise keeps you fit and reduces cardiovascular risk. Blood pressure and cholesterol come down with regular exercise.

Relation between coronary artery disease and low birth weight is known as Barker’s hypothesis or fetal origin of adult heart diseases.

Vegetations in infective endocarditis: A combination of thrombus with leucocytes and bacteria in bacterial endocarditis and fungi in fungal endocarditis.

Death can occur if heart stops beating for more than 4 minutes, but can be revived if CPR is started before that.

Thrombolysis for stroke is slightly complex. It has to be given within three hours. Stroke has to be confirmed by CT scan and bleeding excluded.

Persistence of smoking related risk: The coronary risk comes down by fifty percent one year after smoking cessation.

Floppy atrial septum is an aneurysm or bulge in the atrial septum which moves to and fro. It can cause embolic stroke rarely, more if associated with a

Magnesium deficiency in blood (hypomagnesemia) can cause irregularities in heart rhythm.

Athlete’s heart is hypertrophied (thickened) due to the constant training.