What are the Wales of heart and location, what are heart diseases?
Answers
Tricuspid valve-between right auricle
and right ventricle
Bicuspid/mitral-between left auricle
Valve. and left ventricle
Semilunar valves-between ventricles
and pulmonary
artery and aorta
respectively
Diseases
Angina pectorsis_Chest pain
Myocardial infraction_heart attack
Cardiac Disease
Background
HeartCardiac disease places a heavy burden of premature death and ill health on the Welsh nation. Tackling this is a Welsh Assembly Government priority for service improvements.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is caused by the narrowing of the arteries that supply the heart and is due to a gradual build-up of fatty material called atheroma. The narrowing can cause myocardiacl infarction (heart attack), angina (pain or discomfort in the chest or neighbouring parts of the body due to insufficient pxygen reaching the heart) and other forms of chronic heart disease. In Wales in 2004 CHD was responsible for over 6,000 deaths – just under 19% of all deaths. Although the number of people dying from CHD in Wales have been falling over the past three decades, the death rate from CHD varies considerably, with the highest rates in the south Wales valleys and north east Wales. The death rate in the most deprived fifth of wards is almost a third higher than in the least deprived fifth. This variation presents a challenge to all those involved in cardiac care.
Heart Failure is the only major cardiovascular disease with increasing incidence and prevalence mailnly due to the greater numbers of heart attack survivors o the increasingly elderly population.
Arrhthymias are electrical disorders of the heart ; these also place a considerable burden of diesase on Welsh communities accounting for more than 3,000 sudden deaths each year in Wales.
In Wales around 425 children are born each year with congenital heart disease. Survival rates for these children have improved significantly over the last fifty years and as a result there are more adults than children with congenital heart disease.
The Cardiac Disease National Service Framework (NSF) for Wales, published in July 2009 is the key policy document for the delivery and development of services for the range of cardiac disease outlined above.