congenital heart disease prevention

congenital heart disease prevention
New plans were presented to try to prevent heart disease which in turn could be more than 7,000 lives over the next five years. Doctors in Scotland also hope to prevent 27,000 heart attacks and other" cardiac events "by adopting a new approach.

The plan is the preventive treatment of some 500,000 people, including risk assessments for all over 40 years, in an attempt to stop those most at risk of developing heart disease. It also recommends that more people should be the statin drugs to reduce cholesterol. The plan was created by Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (login), which created guidelines for the NHS. The guidelines also recommend that for the first time, doctors should take into account social status when deciding whether people need treatment to prevent heart disease.

It is expected that 50% of men in Scotland and 20% of women over the age of 40 can be prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins. As with the assessment and treatment, with the highest risk of heart disease would Lifestyle advice.

Patients with the severe form of heart attack should be to the regional centers to have the blood clots and narrowed arteries removed and replaced with a device to open the arteries. If this is not possible, within 90 minutes for the diagnosis, they should soon be the most effective clot-breaking drugs. For those who are at risk of less severe heart attacks should be an early heart X-rays and are used for a possible operation. The guidelines also say that more patients with heart problems should implantable defibrillators to reduce the risk of sudden death and discharge arrangements for hospital patients with heart failure should be improved.

In an interview with the BBC, Professor Keith Fox of Sign said: "These guidelines bring robust and up to date scientific knowledge and the very good clinical expertise to detail how we can save thousands of people from developing and suffering the complications of cardiovascular diseases.

"The result will be thousands of deaths avoided and tens of thousands of people whose lives are not destroyed by a heart attack, angina pectoris, heart failure, heart rhythm disturbances and other complications that impair quality of life. "

In the past year coronary heart disease (CHD) killed more than 10,000 people in Scotland alone. Deaths by 30% in the last 10 years due to previous guidelines register and it is hoped that these new guidelines are in some ways to save even more lives.