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05/23/2012
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SAO PAULO - Have you ever felt your pulse to see how are your heartbeat? This simple measure, recommended by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, can help identify signs that something is going wrong when the heartbeat is irregular or even prevent a stroke. Atrial fibrillation - a type of arrhythmia that occurs when the court fails to contract, blood accumulates and form clots - is a major cause of stroke (CVA), but the population does not know it. It is a revealing survey, conducted in April in cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 7000, with the support of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology.
The study revealed that 33% believe that the main cause of stroke is high blood pressure. Obesity has also been indicated as the cause for 26% of respondents, followed by high cholesterol, with 16%.
- The research shows us how the population is uninformed about heart disease - the cardiologist said Jadelson Andrade, president of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology.
Atrial fibrillation affects about 1.5 million men and women in the country. Treatments range from anticoagulant by surgical intervention. And prevention can be made with regular visits to the doctor.
The stroke caused by atrial fibrillation are more serious because this type of arrhythmia affects large areas of the brain.
- It's practically a shower of blood clots - alert, Jadelson Andrade, who says that patients with this type of cardiac arrhythmia are five times more likely to have a stroke.
The survey also revealed that 71% do not know what is atrial fibrillation, and only 16% knew how to relate it to a kind of change in the rhythm of the heartbeat.
Among the risk factors for developing the arrhythmia, 32% were unable to point to no specific cause while 16% are related to obesity. And 15% believe that the fact is linked to physical inactivity.
The survey, conducted by Bayer HealthCare, heard men and women in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and Brasilia.
- What is striking is the fact that 72% claim that it is possible to prevent cardiovascular disease but do not know how to deal - Ricardo Pavanello said the doctor, supervisor of clinical cardiology Heart Hospital of São Paulo.Houve home one answered, transfusion blood and even heart transplantation and treatment of this arrhythmia.
Anticoagulants
Despite the different treatment strategies for controlling this type of cardiac arrhythmia, positioning a recent European Society of Cardiology (European Society of Cardiology) shows that therapy with anticoagulants is even more effective in reducing mortality associated with atrial fibrillation . Today, there are medicines such as warfarin and rivaroxabana - recently approved by ANVISA in Brazil.
Source: The Day on Line
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