Ok. Coronary Heart Disease occurs when your coronary arteries become blocked which causes a lack of oxygen to your myocardium. OK. WHAT THE HECK ARE CORONARY ARTERIES? They are arteries that give blood to your heart muscle or myocardium (myo: muscle, cardium: heart).
Why is clogging your coronary arteries bad? **Maybe because your heart is A LITTLE important to the function of your body** Well yeah that is true, but let's talk about how this happens.
Heart clogs generally start up with cholesterol buildup in a specific coronary artery.
-What happens is that the cholesterol clumps on the artery wall.
-Then white blood cells and other proteins in the blood try to fix it but end up just making it bigger which causes Atherosclerosis (the hardening of the blood vessels).
- After that, the little 'bump' turns into plaque. Then the plaque ruptures. This either happens spontaneously or because of high blood pressure or sudden heart rate increases. And also this is BAD!!!!! It causes all that plaque material to be exposed to the blood. Suddenly, red blood cells and clotting factors began to add to the plaque turning it into a thrombus or a blood clot.
This plaque is so large that at rest, the person will feel chest pain. If the person does a workout it causes there heart muscle to need more oxygen. But blood can't get there. This causes the piece of heart tissue to lose its ability to function. A person will experience this through a myocardial infarction or a heart attack. If the person is not treated within 20 minutes, then the person's heart will have suffered severe and IRREVERSIBLE damage to the heart. WHICH IS REALLY BAD!!!!!
I hoped you learned a lot!!!!!
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