Asthma and Heart Disease

DISEASE asthma who do not usually tend to develop heart disease, said the findings of a study that provides new clues about the new dangers in the inflammation.Other research found an association between asthma and heart problems, but these studies have not clearly related to the result of smoking, which is known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease.In the new study, doctors from Kaiser Permanente medical center plans to find that people who do not smoke also face an increased risk of heart disease. Data about the show at least one-third higher risk in people not dripada asthmatics.The likely cause is unclear. The researchers speculate chronic asthmatic lung inflammation is likely to face greater arterial damage. However, they say it can also occur because the drugs used to treat asthma with effects on the heart."This is just the beginning of the study," said Dr. Carlos Iribarren, led the study. "This discovery aroused our desire to know," he added.Iribarren present their findings Friday at a meeting of the American Heart Association in San Antonio.This study were obtained after 22 036 people spread the questionnaire to non-smokers Kaiser patients between 1979 and 1985 and followed their health until 1998. Among them 1062 men and women who said they were diagnosed with asthma several times in their lives.Those who suffer from asthma as much as 32% more than those without the treatment of heart disease or died from the disease during treatment.People who undergo the treatment of asthma at baseline had a higher risk. Twelve percent of them develop into heart disease at the end of the study, compared to 7% in those without asthma - an increased risk of more than 70%.Approximately 6% of Americans estimated to have asthma. Number of patients in developing countries like Indonesia is estimated higher due to various causes.Iribarren said that patients should pay special attention to health foods, losing weight is not excessive and pay attention to blood pressure and cholesterol levels."The recommendation is universally to prevent cardiovascular disease applied to them, because they face the possibility of increased risk," he said.Some experts believe chronic inflammation may increase the risk of heart disease. Most of the attention in this study focused on the disease-causing bacteria, such as gum disease or infection of the sinus.Journal Circulation, published earlier this week to write, doctors in Europe reported that patients with a variety of chronic bacterial infections are three times the risk of damage to the arteries.Inflammation in asthma is also caused by an allergic reaction. Iribarren's research also shows the possibility that that could also be berkibat bad on the heart, which is made possible by the inflammation of the arteries caused by chemicals and white cells circulating in the body."A recent study has become one of the puzzle of how inflammation influenza can develop into heart disease," said Dr. Sidney C. Smith Jr., Director of research at the heart association. "He seemed to play an important role here."Another study reported at the meeting include Health Center Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston who finds smoking may trigger heart attacks caused by blood clots. A heart attack occurs when blood clots to the heart.The researchers found that the victim had just smoked had blood clots larger than smokers who did not smoke for six hours.

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