Doctors spend many hours educating patients about prevention of heart disease in both men and women. Understanding how to prevent heart diseases often gives you clues as to the warning symptoms of coronary heart disease.

Coronary artery disease, also called coronary heart disease, has specific signs and symptoms, which are warnings of the increased risk of a future heart attack.

Angina is a specific type of chest pain that is a symptom of coronary heart disease in both men and women. Men appear to complain of angina more than women but this condition exists in both genders.

Angina happens when there is not enough flow of blood through the blood vessels of the heart muscle. This deprives the heart of life sustaining oxygen and causes the muscle to react in pain. Continue reading →

Coronary heart disease literally means disease in the coronary arteries that supply the heart with oxygen. When a person experiences coronary heart disease they may have several signs and symptoms. But before those symptoms occur other risk factors have to be in place.

What factors increase the risk of coronary heart disease have been the topic of research studies for many years. As we become more knowledgeable about the risk factors we can decrease the risk of heart disease and discover ways to more adequately treat it.

Some extensive clinical studies have found what factors increase the risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack. There are major risk factors and others, which have some significance and prevalence but aren’t as strongly linked to the development of heart disease. Continue reading →