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You merely don’t inherit skin color, height, or eye color through your genes, it can also be the probability of having a heart attack. Studies have indicated that, if heart diseases run in your family, then you are very likely to develop them too. Another disturbing factor is that there are many types of hereditary conditions such as congenital heart disease (at birth) to atherosclerotic (due to aging), all of them are hereditary.
Affecting millions worldwide, hypertension or high blood pressure is a common health condition nowadays. When the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries is higher than normal, it is called hypertension. The exact causes of this disorder are not known but lifestyle factors like smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, excessive salt intake and alcohol consumption are major contributors to this disease.
Angioplasty also called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is a procedure used to open blocked coronary arteries (caused by coronary artery disease). It restores blood flow to the heart muscle without open-heart surgery. Angioplasty can be done in an emergency setting such as an acute heart attack or in an elective setting when heart disease is strongly suspected from non-invasive testing.
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