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Coronary Heart Disease

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- When stress makes your heart beats faster, take a deep, slow breath. This will bring your heart rate and respiration back to normal

- Get enough sleep, and have a regular sleep schedule

- Exercise for cardiovascular fitness at least three times a week

- Avoid nicotine, excessive caffeine, and other stimulants

- Mix leisure with work. Take short regular breaks from work and get away when you can

- Plan leisure activities into your life, not only on week-ends, so everyday you always have something to look forward to

- Eat well-balanced, nutritious meals

- Look for company of people with positive attitude. Develop some mutually supportive friendships or relationships

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Angina or Angina Pectoris refers to the chest pain resulting from an insufficient blood supply to the heart.

When coronary arteries get obstructed by atherosclerotic plaques of fat and lipids, the blood supply they provide to the heart is reduced.

During physical activity or stress, the heart rate increases as well as the amount of blood needed. If the heart muscle doesn't get the blood supply it needs, it develops a pain called angina. This pain usually goes away a few minutes after stopping the activity.

If a coronary artery gets completely clogged, the heart cells (myocardium) that were getting blood supply from this artery die,  which can lead to heart attack (myocardial infarction) and death.

Symptoms
Factors that can precipitate angina

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The pain of angina usually affects a small region of the chest over the breastbone, and may radiate to the jaw, left arm or both arms, hands or throat.

It can also starts in the arm and radiate only later to the chest.

Angina may be triggered by some heart-intensive activities such as :

• Walking up stairs or a hill

• Running after a train or airplane (it cumulates with the anxiety associated with being late)

• Intense physical or emotional stress resulting from anxiety, excitement, distress or fear

• Jumping into a swimming pool, or walking against the wind

Angina: Patient Information, from the LSUMC-S Family Medicine Chest Pain due to angina and other causes: from MedicineNet Chest pain: what to expect in the ER (Mayo O@sis)