Physicians have other names for heart attack: coronary occlusion, coronary thrombosis, myocardial infraction. Coronary occlusion means total closure of the coronary artery. This may caused by fatty deposits that have piled up high enough to dam the flow channel.
Or it may be that a blood clot, or thrombus, forming in the coronary artery, has suddenly caught on the roughened, fat clogged area and plugged up the vessel. In this case of the occlusion is called a coronary thrombosis. Myocardial infraction refers to the actual damage or death of heart muscle (myocardium) resulting from the occlusion.
Heart attack hits males hardest. The frequency of heart attacks begins to build rapidly among men between the ages of 30 and 40 but it almost unknown in women of the same age group. The odds begin evening out as women approach and pass menopause. Despite this, during the same 40 to 44 age period the ratio of male to female heart attacks may be as high as 24 to one.
The incidence of heart attacks increases with age. The peak years for male heart attacks are in the 55 to 59 age bracket. The percentage of deaths from first heart attacks is highest among men, say in their forties, as compared with those I n their sixties presumably because they do not have as well-developed collateral circulation to protect them.
Or it may be that a blood clot, or thrombus, forming in the coronary artery, has suddenly caught on the roughened, fat clogged area and plugged up the vessel. In this case of the occlusion is called a coronary thrombosis. Myocardial infraction refers to the actual damage or death of heart muscle (myocardium) resulting from the occlusion.
Heart attack hits males hardest. The frequency of heart attacks begins to build rapidly among men between the ages of 30 and 40 but it almost unknown in women of the same age group. The odds begin evening out as women approach and pass menopause. Despite this, during the same 40 to 44 age period the ratio of male to female heart attacks may be as high as 24 to one.
The incidence of heart attacks increases with age. The peak years for male heart attacks are in the 55 to 59 age bracket. The percentage of deaths from first heart attacks is highest among men, say in their forties, as compared with those I n their sixties presumably because they do not have as well-developed collateral circulation to protect them.
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