Question

Heart disease remains one of the top causes of mortality in the United States. Consider the various types of heart disease covered in class this week. For your discussion, complete these items:

• The etiology of the selected heart disease: AFib
• Modifiable factors
• Non-modifiable factors

Be sure to cite any resources used when posting your discussion.

Answer 1

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remainsthe leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for 840,768 deaths (635,260 cardiac) in 2016. From 2006 to 2016, the US death rate from CVD decreased by 18.6% and from coronary heart disease by 31.8%.

For more than a decade, heart disease and cancer have claimed the first and second spots respectively as the leading causes of deaths in America. Together, the two causes are responsible for 46 percent of deaths in the United States.

Types of heart disease include-

• Arrhythmia. An arrhythmia is a heart rhythmabnormality.
• Atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a hardening of the arteries.
• Cardiomyopathy. This condition causes the heart's muscles to harden or grow weak
• Congenital heart defects
• Coronary artery disease (CAD)
• Heart infections

What Are Cardiovascular Diseases-

• Abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias.
• Aorta disease and Marfan syndrome.
• Congenital heart disease.
• Coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries)
• Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
• Heart attack.
• Heart failure
• Heart muscle disease
• (cardiomyopathy)

The exact cause of atrial fibrillation is unknown, but it's more common with age and affects certain groups of people more than others. Atrial fibrillation is common in people with other heart conditions, such as high blood pressure (hypertension) atherosclerosis.

Modifiable factor-

There is good evidence that people with an irregular heart beat should have it checked by a doctor.

Non- Modifiable Factor-

age ethnic background family history of heart disease.