What are the symptoms of cardiovascular disease?

The incidence of cardiovascular disease is relatively high, especially some middle-aged and elderly people are easily affected by it. Patients usually show symptoms of palpitations, dizziness, and fainting, and sometimes have unsteady standing, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and pale complexion.

1. Palpitations

Palpitations are a comprehensive symptom of subjective feelings and objective signs? Cardiovascular disease. Subjectively, the patient feels that the heart is beating fast, irregularly or forcefully. Objective examination can show that the heartbeat is too fast, too slow or irregular, that is, there are changes in heart rate and rhythm.

2. Dizziness

Vertigo is a common clinical symptom. It is an impairment of the body's sense of orientation or balance in spatial relationships. Patients feel that the surrounding scenery or themselves are rotating and shaking. Vertigo attacks are often accompanied by symptoms of autonomic dysfunction such as imbalance, unsteady standing, nausea, vomiting, pale complexion, sweating, bradycardia, and low blood pressure.

3. Fainting

Syncope is a clinical symptom caused by temporary widespread cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, leading to transient dysfunction of the cerebral cortex and causing sudden, reversible, and short-term loss of consciousness. Before loss of consciousness occurs, there are often symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction such as pale complexion, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and sweating.

4. Fatigue

It is a common symptom of various heart diseases. When heart disease impairs blood circulation, metabolic waste (mainly lactic acid) accumulates in tissues, stimulating nerve endings and causing fatigue. Fatigue can be mild or severe. Mild fatigue may not be a concern, but severe fatigue may interfere with work. But heart disease fatigue is not specific and is difficult to distinguish from fatigue caused by other diseases.