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Heart dystrophy.

The heart muscle, like all types of muscle tissue in the body, is directly dependent on metabolic processes that support the structure, nutrition and energy requirements of muscle tissue and physical activity on the myocardium. It is worth paying attention to the fact that, unlike other muscle structures, which, in addition to the state of stretching and contraction, can still be at rest, the myocardium does not have such a state, it works continuously, changing only the amount (intensity of contractions and stretches). For this reason, metabolic processes in cardiomyocytes are continuous, and their violation entails dystrophic changes in the muscle of the heart.

Heart dystrophy occurs when muscle tissue does not receive enough nutrients to restore its structures and experiences excessive loads (energy waste), not commensurate with the intake and assimilation of nutrients.

Disorders of myocardial trophism can occur for several reasons:

malnutrition (causes anemia, micronutrient deficiencies, lack of body fat),
hormonal disorders that change metabolism (with menopause, with disorders of the thyroid gland),
loads on the myocardium that do not correspond to its regenerative abilities (intense sports, lack of oxygen, kidney failure and pulmonary failure),
high sports loads can cause focal replacement of cardiomyocytes with connective tissue cells, which makes the muscle less elastic, and given the fact that connective tissue cells are not supplied with blood, trophism is disturbed in the myocardial tissue,
a high level of stress contributes to an excessive increase in the heartbeat, which is one of the factors that provoke myocardial dystrophy,
there are a number of diseases of the cardiovascular system, which contributes to the development of dystrophic phenomena in the myocardium - these are myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, arterial stenosis, vascular atherosclerosis and others.

Signs of heart dystrophy:

At the initial stages of the development of myocardial dystrophy, a person does not experience any special unpleasant sensations that could cause anxiety about the state of the myocardium.
Only significant dystrophic changes, myocardial degradation, which cause disruptions in cardiac activity, serve as indicators of the presence of dystrophy. A person begins to experience a lack of oxygen, suffer from shortness of breath, dizziness, edema of the lower extremities, cough, pallor of the skin may develop.

These symptoms of myocardial dystrophy indicate a neglected state of the myocardium.

Treatment of myocardial dystrophy is associated with inhibition of the processes of degradation of the muscle tissue of the heart. For these purposes, attention is paid to nutrition (including fats and carbohydrates, and not only proteins), replenish the reserves of trace elements (magnesium, potassium, zinc), equalize physical activity, fight chronic stress, protect themselves from infectious diseases (flu, tonsillitis), which have side effects on cardiac activity.