Angina and Heart Disease

Vitality Integrative Medicine has the tools to help you get angina relief.

Angina is a debilitating condition characterized by chest pain, which can occur at rest, during exercise, or both. Anyone who has had angina knows how much of a strain it is on your life. It is a symptom of cardiovascular disease (aka heart disease or coronary artery disease), which affects the arteries of the heart. Major risk factors are lack of exercise, diabetes, poor diet, high blood pressure, overweight, and smoking.

Traditional medications can be helpful to reduce the symptoms, but do little to address the actual underlying cause of the disease. Surgeries to ‘rotor-rooter’ your arteries in your heart – angioplasty, or stents which push open the artery walls from the inside, are a last resort, but don’t prevent the arteries from developing the same problem years later if the cause isn’t addressed. In fact, stents have been shown to not have any benefit in reducing symptoms.