Cami's+Science+Page

My disease is heart attack. You can get a heart attack by smoking, high blood preasure, overwhieght, and not exircising can increase it. A heart attack isn't contagious and sometimes people get it more than others.

For right now there is no cure for getting a heart attack but people can get mild ones that don't really harm someone and there are extremely dangerous cases of a heart attack. Some treatments for it are oxygen to help with breathing, aspirin to prevent further blood clotting, and nitroglycerin to speed up blood flow. Some symptoms are pain in the chest, Nausea and vomiting, shortness of breath, and cold heavy sweat. Causes are as follows:loss of heart to supply the heart. In 90 percent of cases, blockage of the arteries. Some interesting facts are you can get surgery if cases are really serious. Also 1.5 million americans have a heart attacks each year.

Frey,Rebeca __Diseases and Disorters__ Detroit New York pages 485-490