[Video] Learn about cardiovascular diseases

Currently, cardiovascular diseases are becoming more and more common with many dangerous and life-threatening complications. Therefore, understanding heart diseases will help us have a better way to prevent them, especially without fear and fear when facing them. Below are useful sharing on this issue from Dr. Le Huu Dong - Head of Medical Examination - Internal Medicine Department of Vinmec Nha Trang International General Hospital.

Specialist Doctor I Le Huu Dong is a doctor with longstanding reputation in the examination and treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart valve disease, cardiomyopathy ,... Doctor Dong is currently the Head of the Department of Medical Examination and Internal Medicine at Vinmec Nha Trang International General Hospital.
According to the doctor, now with the development of society and the process of industrialization, heart diseases in Vietnam have also changed a lot compared to the past. If in the past, most heart disease was congenital heart disease or posterior low-valvular stenosis, now the most common heart disease is coronary heart disease, typically myocardial infarction leading to heart failure. The potential for sudden death is very high. This situation is partly due to the increase in the number of people with high blood pressure.
Doctors also warn that heart disease is one of the leading causes of disability and death among diseases. Specifically, according to statistics in Vietnam, up to 25% of people have cardiovascular disease, of which 1 in 3 deaths in hospitals has cardiovascular disease. This further shows that understanding heart diseases is extremely necessary.

Source: Khanh Hoa Television (KTV)