Informative Speech On Heart Disease

There are thousands of different diseases that humans can get. Some of them can be treated but others could kill you. Heart disease is one of the diseases that has different types. Some of the diseases don’t kill people but some are dangerous. Heart disease can be risky depending on the type of the disease that you have.
The heart in our body is what keeps us going. If our heart stops beating, we pass out and die. There are many diseases that are related to the heart. There are three different kinds of vessels in our body, arteries are one of the three, and the other two are veins and capillaries. “Atherosclerosis is a condition that develops when a substance called plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries.This buildup narrows the arteries …show more content…
If the answer to that question is yes for you, you immediately need to find out about your family’s genetic history. Heart disease is a genetic disease. If someone’s parents have heart disease, there is a big chance that their child will have it too. Medical conditions that run in a family are inherited or genetic. That means they are caused by changes in genes that are passed down from generations, and many different types of heart diseases are inherited. The mutations in our genes cause heart disease “The mutation in the ApoE gene is linked to increased levels of triglycerides, which are fats in the blood associated with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, stroke and heart disease” ( Medicine.Net) There are some ways to treat heart disease. Since heart disease is genetic, a person could get the disease but there are some ways to reduce the risks. If you are someone who smokes, and has relatives with the disease, there is a big chance of you getting it, but you can reduce the risks of a stroke by quitting smoking. There are some medications that help people with the disease. Some medications reduce your heart's workload, and help decreases your chance of getting a heart attack or stroke. The best way to lower the risks are having a balanced diet and being active. Some people with sudden heart attacks need surgery, in surgery a lot of people die because if someone who gets heart attack doesn’t get treated fast their heart stops and when your heart stops beating, there is very little chance for it to start beating again. Cardiac arrest is different from heart attack because, heart attacks happen when the muscles don't get enough blood so the muscles die, but in cardiac arrest the heart immediately stops pumping because of some problems in the heart, but a cardiac arrest may occur with a heart attack. “It takes just four to six minutes after cardiac arrest before a person experiences brain death and then complete death.