Hello steemians it's Toluade I want to light up risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest
A cardiac arrest is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood round your body, commonly because of a problem with electrical signals in your heart.
When your heart stops pumping blood, your brain is starved of oxygen. This causes you to fall unconscious and stop breathing.
Risk factors includes
1)Coronary heart disease
2)smooking
3)High blood pressure
4)family history of cardiac arrest
5)obesity
6)high blood cholesterol
7)A sendentry life style
8)Nutritional imbalance
Men are 2 to 3times likely to experience cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest symptoms and signs are not subtle:
1)The heart stops beating and blood is not supplied to the body.
2)Almost immediate loss of consciousness occurs, and the affected person will not be able to be aroused.
3)The person will fall or slump over.
4)No pulse will is felt (palpable).
5)There will be no signs of breathing .