Here are three short video clips by Dr Louis Ignarro (Nobel Prize Laureate) on Nitric Oxide and Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Disease.


Dr Louis Ignarro on Nitric Oxide - part 1

         


Dr Louis Ignarro on Nitric Oxide - part 2

         


Dr Louis Ignarro on Nitric Oxide - part 3

         

Alfred Nobel the Swedish inventor and an industrialist, creator of the Nobel Prize list owe his fortune to his discovery of the deathly Nitroglycerin which give the dynamite its explosive power. But Nitroglycerin has other uses too. In his live later on, Nobel developed Myocardial pain or Angina (chest pain) and was prescribe with the same substance he used in making the powerful dynamite. He didn’t take the drug, perhaps he didn’t believe how clinically successful was the drug to his own heart problem back then. Nobel’s concern may have been justified hundred years later for the benefit of the people in current days.

This short video clip show us how three US scientists won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medical for their discoveries. The truth on how an environment menace – Nitric Oxide turn medical marvelous in treatment for Coronary heart and Cardiovascular disease.

           

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease, is a condition in which plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply your heart muscle with oxygen-rich blood.

Plaque, a fatty waxy like substance often deposit itself on the arteries walls causes the arteries wall to thicken making blood passage narrow.  When plaque builds up in the arteries, the condition is called atherosclerosis.



         

Plaque narrows the arteries and reduces blood flow to your heart muscle thus denying cells off nutrients and oxygen. Heart attack occurs when the bulging plaque built up in the arteries wall rupture and causes blood clots.

           


Overview
When your coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked, oxygen-rich blood can't reach your heart muscle. This can cause angina or a heart attack.

Angina is chest pain or discomfort that occurs when not enough oxygen-rich blood is flowing to an area of your heart muscle. Angina may feel like pressure or squeezing in your chest or sometimes flammable feeling at the chest (normally on your left hand side where the heart is located). The pain also may occur in your shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to an area of your heart muscle is completely blocked. This prevents oxygen-rich blood from reaching that area of heart muscle and causes it to die. Without quick treatment, a heart attack can lead to serious problems and even death.