Cause of cardiovascular disease-Cardiomyopathy

PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY

For an unknown reason, cardiomyopathy sometimes develops in connection with pregnancy and is referred to as peripartum (peri meaning around or at the time of, partum meaning labor or childbirth) cardiomyopathy. During the last month of pregnancy or within several months following delivery, the woman develops heart muscle inflammation that appears to be unrelated to any infection or other known causes.

The condition may result in severe and irreversible heart failure, although many patients recover completely. Women who survive the illness are at a high risk of developing this type of heart muscle disease at subsequent pregnancues. Peripartum cardiomyopathy occurs with particularly high frequency in African- American women in the United States and is a common cause of heart failure among women of Cardiomyopathy can also be caused by severe nu-childbearing age in some African countries.

Nutritional Abnormalities of Cardiomyopathy.

Cardiomyopathy can also be caused by severe nutritional deficiency (which can also be related to alcohol use). The heart muscle, like any other muscle, can be damaged by chronic deficiency in certain vitamins, particularly vitamin B-1, or in minerals. In developing countries heart muscle disease is more common than artery cardiomyopaty. Which is predominent heart disease in United State.

Genetic Disorders

Dilated cardiomyopathy is known to develop in lated cardiomyopathy is more common than coro- patients with some genetic disorders that affect the nary artery disease, the predominant form of heart muscles or nerves of the back, arms, and legs. (Such disease in the United States. diseases include progressive muscular dystrophy, myotonic muscular dystrophy, and Friedreich's ataxia.)

There are also cases when dilated cardiomyopathy is not associated with muscle disorders but appears to be genetic in origin because several members of the same family are affected. However, because no abnormal gene has been identified, it is uncertain whether clustering of this condition within some families results from genetic or environmental factors.