What does stable angina mean?

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Exertional angina pectoris is mainly divided into three common categories. They are stable angina pectoris, primary angina pectoris and worsening angina pectoris. Stable angina pectoris is the most common in exertional angina pectoris. This disease is angina pectoris caused by exercise or other reasons that lead to increased oxygen demand in the heart muscle. So what does stable angina mean? Here is a brief introduction to this type of angina.

What does stable angina mean?

Attack frequency. Stable angina pectoris, also known as common angina pectoris, is the most common type of angina pectoris. This disease attacks several times a week or every day, and the degree of each attack is basically the same. The inducing factors are often emotional fluctuations or overwork. The position of pain does not change every time, and the time of pain attack is about 3 to 5 minutes, Longer time can even reach 10 to 20 minutes, after the use of nitroglycerin pain can be alleviated. When the disease attack, patients often have emotional anxiety, pale, cold sweat and other symptoms, the patient's blood pressure can be slightly increased, can also be slightly decreased.

Characteristics of stable angina pectoris. At the time of the onset of the disease, ECG examination can find systolic murmur in the apical region, suggesting that there may be dysfunction of mitral valve. It is also found that the second heart sound has the character of inverse splitting. When the patients rest, more than 50% of the patients have normal ECG. Chen Yun's patients can be found to have left ventricular hypertrophy, arrhythmia and other problems through examination. Occasionally, some patients can be found to have old myocardial infarction. ECG examination of patients with pain attack can find many typical ischemic ST segment depression.

Angina pectoris is paroxysmal attack, the whole process is generally 3-5 minutes, severe attack can reach 10-15 minutes, more than 30 minutes is rare, should be differentiated from myocardial infarction. Intermittent chest pain or throbbing pain consistent with the heartbeat, and chest pain lasting for several seconds are not like angina pectoris; If the pain is vague and heavy, and lasts for several days or weeks, it is not like angina pectoris; Angina is rarely affected by deep breathing.

matters needing attention

In order to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease, health knowledge education should be carried out among the whole population to improve citizens' awareness of self-care, avoid or change bad living habits, such as quitting smoking, paying attention to reasonable diet, proper exercise and maintaining psychological balance.