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    Heart disease refers to conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. The most common types are coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Symptoms can include chest pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and smoking. To prevent heart disease, adopt a healthy lifestyle with nutrition, exercise, not smoking, and managing medical conditions. Smoking and drug use damage the heart and blood vessels by increasing inflammation and reducing oxygen flow. They impair physical performance in athletes by decreasing endurance and slowing healing. Maintaining a healthy heart requires healthy habits, preventing risk factors, and addressing cardiovascular disease issues.

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    Heart disease refers to conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. The most common types are coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Symptoms can include chest pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and smoking. To prevent heart disease, adopt a healthy lifestyle with nutrition, exercise, not smoking, and managing medical conditions. Smoking and drug use damage the heart and blood vessels by increasing inflammation and reducing oxygen flow. They impair physical performance in athletes by decreasing endurance and slowing healing. Maintaining a healthy heart requires healthy habits, preventing risk factors, and addressing cardiovascular disease issues.

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    Heart disease refers to conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. The most common types are coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Symptoms can include chest pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and smoking. To prevent heart disease, adopt a healthy lifestyle with nutrition, exercise, not smoking, and managing medical conditions. Smoking and drug use damage the heart and blood vessels by increasing inflammation and reducing oxygen flow. They impair physical performance in athletes by decreasing endurance and slowing healing. Maintaining a healthy heart requires healthy habits, preventing risk factors, and addressing cardiovascular disease issues.

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    Heart disease refers to conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. The most common types are coronary artery disease, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Symptoms can include chest pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and smoking. To prevent heart disease, adopt a healthy lifestyle with nutrition, exercise, not smoking, and managing medical conditions. Smoking and drug use damage the heart and blood vessels by increasing inflammation and reducing oxygen flow. They impair physical performance in athletes by decreasing endurance and slowing healing. Maintaining a healthy heart requires healthy habits, preventing risk factors, and addressing cardiovascular disease issues.

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    What is Heart Disease?


    • refers to several types of conditions
    Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) - caused by plaque buildup in the walls of the arteries
    that supply blood to the heart, plaque is made up of cholesterol and other substances,
    affects blood flow [heart attack]
    Arrhythmia - heart beats slowly or to fast in organized fashion
    Heart Failure - develops after heart becomes weakened or damaged

    What are the symptoms of Heart Disease?


    • “silent”, usually not diagnosed till person experience signs/symptoms
    • Heart Attack - chest pains, upper body neck + pain, heartburn
    • Arrhythmia - fluttery feeling in chest
    • Heart Failure - shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling in other parts of the body

    Risk Factors for Heart Disease


    • High Blood Pressure - the pressure of blood in arteries, “silent killer”
    • High Cholesterol - extra cholesterol can build up in wall of arteries and clog up
    • Obesity - excess body weight leads to high blood pressure
    • Smoking - increases the formation of plaque in blood vessels

    How to Prevent Heart Disease?


    • Healthy Habits
    • Regular Physical Activity
    • No Smoking
    • Healthy Weight
    • Take Charge of Medical Conditions
    Drugs and Smoking
    Affects of Smoking and Heart Disease:
    • Smoking damages your heart and blood vessels, which increases of plaque formation in the arteries
    • Occasional smoking can cause damage to the heart and blood vessels
    • Exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart disease to non smokers (causes heart attacks and strokes)
    • Chemicals in cigarette smoke promote swelling + inflammation in blood vessel lining cells, cause blood
    arteries to constrict, results in cardiovascular diseases
    • Tobacco Smoke Contains:
    - nicotine - addictive drug that increases blood pressure + making heart work harder
    - carbon monoxide - cuts off oxygen flow to your heart and other organs
    - tar - a thick substance that coats your lungs like soot in a chimney, which makes breathing difficult
    • Damages blood vessels
    • Risk for Stroke (reduced blood flow to heart)

    Most Common Drugs Used by Teens:


    1. Marijuana - psychoactive drug that may impair judgment, coordination, and perception.
    The long term effects of marijuana usage can cause anxiety, sadness, and memory loss
    2. Prescription Drugs - frequently misused like painkillers, stimulants, and benzodiazepines.
    Health issues associated with this is addiction, overdose, and mortality.
    3. Alcohol- it can lead to impaired judgement, memory loss, and alcohol poisoning
    4. Nicotine - found in cigarettes and e-cigarettes, leads to addiction, respiratory problems and
    other health issues

    Dangers of Marijuana Recreational Usage:


    1. Impaired judgement and coordination: Makes daily activities such as driving and
    heavy machinery dangerous
    2. Addiction - a person can develop dependence for the drug and could potentially
    result in withdrawal symptoms
    3. Mental Health Risk - studies have shown recreational marijuana usage can lead to
    depression, psychosis, and anxiety
    4. Respiratory Problems - similar to smoking tobacco, smoking marijuana can lead to
    respiratory problems such as heart disease
    5. Cognitive Impairment - attention and short term memory can be affected, which
    can lead to decline in job performance and academic

    Dangers of Prescription Drugs:


    1. Addiction - specifically opioids are highly addictive, and physical dependency can
    lead to significant withdrawal symptoms like nausea, diarrhea, muscle aches, and
    anxiety
    2. Overdose - when misused overdose can result in death, coma, or respiratory issues
    because it depresses the respiratory system
    3. Drug Interaction - mixing drug such as opioids is dangerous and can lead to
    dangerous side effects and reduce effectiveness

    Dangers of Nicotine:
    • Increases heart rate: one of the side effects of nicotine is a increased heart
    which make the heart work harder, and can eventually cause a strain
    • Reduced oxygen supply: the bloods ability to carry oxygen is decreased by
    nicotine, which over time may cause damage to heart and potentially other
    organs
    • Elevated blood pressure: nicotine can increase risk of heart disease by
    temporarily increasing blood pressure and damaging the blood vessels
    • Weakens Immune System: the immune system is weakened by nicotine,
    making it harder to fight disease that have risk factors for heart disease
    Dangers of Drugs + Smoking and Teen
    Athlete’s
    Many athletes believe effects of drug usage and smoking is completely eliminated when being physically
    active, which is completely false

    1. Poorer Physical Performance


    2. Less Endurance
    3. Slows down Healing After Injury
    4. Negatively effect you cognitively, physically and emotionally

    Your heart, lungs, and muscles require oxygen-rich blood to function to reach peak
    performance . Yet, smoking makes it difficult for oxygen to reach your muscles and other
    body tissues because hazardous substances bond to red blood cells. This results in a rise in
    lactic acid, which makes your muscles feel like they are burning or fatigue.

    Smoking causes your body's ability to sustain physical activity to decline. Due to a reduction
    in oxygenation, smoking raises your resting heart rate compared to non-smokers. Delivering
    oxygen to your body now requires more effort from your heart.

    Nicotine reduces nutrition to damaged tissues (broken bone, a torn ligament, a wound).
    Since nicotine causes clots, these clots stop the tiny blood vessels that supply wounded
    tissues with blood and oxygen, delaying the healing process. Moreover, it constricts the tiny
    blood vessels that often bring healing agents to the site of injury. Also, it hinders the healing
    process and could make the discomfort prolonged.

    Intense pleasure and pain alleviation are produced by the body's interactions with opioid
    medications. The brain becoming dependent on opioid-induced dopamine is one of several
    harmful side effects. Tremors, a lack of motivation, trouble concentrating, and depression can
    all occur when the brain stops generating dopamine. Opioids can also impair impulse
    control, which makes it challenging to suppress cravings for opioids. Conflicts in
    interpersonal interactions may result from poor impulse control.
    How to Obtain A Healthy Heart
    • Obtain Healthy Habits - eating healthy foods, get active (15 minute walk daily), staying at a
    healthy weight, managing stress, control cholesterol and blood pressure levels

    • Preventing Development - acknowledging the problem, assess the risk factors, create a plan,
    create healthy habits, talk to youth

    • Impacts of CV Disease - serious illness, disability, lower quality of life, fatigue, and depression

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