The document discusses various heart-related conditions, including heart disease, heart failure, heart attacks, and arrhythmia, highlighting their symptoms and differences. It emphasizes the importance of early detection and management of heart health, suggesting that proactive measures can prevent extreme health issues. The Apollo Clinic's heart2heart program is introduced as a means to assess and improve heart health, while also promoting educational initiatives within communities.

1. Heart Diseas
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2. Heart Disease
Heart Failure
Usually, heart failure is confused with heart attack, but they are quite different.Heart disease is not a
disease by itself but a consequence of various signs and symptoms caused by a wide variety of
disorders
Symptoms
o Breathlessness
o Tightness in chest
o Choking
o Coughing or sweating with breathlessness, which usually starts 2‐4 hrs after onset of sleep
o Fatigue
o Abdominal fullness, swelling of legs, nausea and loss of appetite
The presentation of heart failuremay be sudden (acute) or over a period of time (chronic). Heart
failure can occur with normal pumping capacity of heart when there is a failure to relax normally
(diastolic heart failure where ejection fraction or pumping capacity is near normal). It can also occur
due to poor pumping capacity of the heart (systolic heart failure).
It becomes an emergency when the patient presents with acute heart failure and when it occurs in
the background (family history) of angina or heart attacks, or with severe high blood pressure.
Heart Attacks
A heart attack occurs when a narrowing in the arteries and/or a sudden blockage from a blood clot
cuts off the nutrients and the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. During heart attack, every second
counts and thus it’s important to be aware of the symptoms.
Symptoms:
o Chest discomfort
o Discomfort in arm, neck or jaw
o Shortness of breath
o Cold sweat
o Nausea or light headedness
Arrhythmia
Arrhythmia is nothing but abnormal heart rhythm. Most cases are harmless, but continuous
recording of such irregularity should be checked immediately by a physician.
Find your Pulse
90 and under ‐ Very light
100 ‐ Light
120 ‐ Moderate
140 ‐ Heavy

3. 150‐160 ‐ Very heavy
Symptoms
o Sudden rise in body temperature
o Fatigue
o Dizziness
o Shortness of breath
o Chest pain
o Rapid heartbeat or pounding
o Cardiac arrest (in extreme cases)
A lot of times, the situation become worse due to ignorance about one’s health and long occurring
symptoms. Taking measures at an early stage is always much easier and affordable than pushing the
circumstances to the extreme. The Heart2Heart programme by Apollo Clinic’s Let’s Talk Health
offers a five minute assessment which will help forecast your heart health for the next 10 years. We
intend to bring this initiative to your homes, your neighbourhood, your workplace, schools, and
recreational centres to organize various interactive forums in which our doctors will talk about
wellness practices, teach you about dealing with emergencies, guide you to manage diseases and lot
more…

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