1. • Cardiology is a medical discipline dealing with disorders of the heart in human or animal.
• Physicians who specialize in this field are called cardiologists and those who specialize in
cardiac surgery are called cardiac surgeons.
Cardiac diseases
• Angina (both a cardiac and vascular disease)
• Arrhythmia (problems related to heartbeat, irregular heartbeat)
• Congenital heart disease
• Coronary artery disease (CAD)
• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
• Heart failure
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Mitral regurgitation
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Pulmonary stenosis
Health burden of cardiovasculardisease(CVD)
1. CVDistheleadingcausesofdeathworldwide
2. Hypertension (high blood pressure) is responsible for 7.5 million deaths each year
3. CVDs are equally common to both men and women
4. 420,000 women die from CVD in the US annually.
5. According to a WHO report, twenty-five million people will die from CVDs annually by
2030.
Treatment of CVD
Medicines can help reduce the symptoms and slow the damage of heart disease. Drugs are available
to cure the following:
• Low blood pressure
• Low heartbeat rates
• Low cholesterol levels to reduce plaque
• Help stabilize abnormal heart beats
• Lessen or prevent clotting in coronary arteries
• Improve the pumping ability of a person’s heart