Some diseases of the heart and blood vessels are hereditary.\u00a0The diseases can be followed for several generations in a family.\u00a0They differ from folk diseases such as stroke, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure, which largely depends on your living habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you think you have a hereditary cardiovascular disease<\/strong>, you can do a genetic analysis to try to find the inherited inheritance in you.\u00a0Your relatives may also be tested if they have inherited the disease.\u00a0Such family investigations are done at specialized centers in collaboration between cardiologists, pediatric cardiologists, clinical geneticists, and genetic counselors.\u00a0In this text, you can read about some of the inherited cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some have a genetic change that causes elevated blood cholesterol levels.\u00a0It can cause you to have cardiovascular disease at an earlier age than usual.\u00a0It may be, for example,\u00a0myocardial infarction\u00a0or familial hypercholesterolemia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some have an inherited weakening of the large body pulmonary artery, the aorta.\u00a0It can lead to a bulge on the large body pulmonary artery, so-called aortic aneurysm.\u00a0The weakening can also cause the blood vessel wall to break.\u00a0It is called aortic dissection.\u00a0The disease almost always affects the part of the aorta that is closest to the heart and should not be confused with a hernia on the large body pulmonary artery in the stomach.\u00a0Examples of hereditary aortic diseases are familial thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissections, FTAAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hereditary ion channel disease involves a change that causes an electrical disturbance in the heart’s muscle cells.\u00a0These diseases can cause a heart rhythm that is faster than usual and can lead to\u00a0dizziness\u00a0and\u00a0fainting.\u00a0In some cases, diseases can be life-threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of ion channel diseases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cardiomyopathy is a collective term for diseases of the heart muscle.\u00a0Symptoms may vary, but\u00a0heart failure\u00a0and heart rhythm disorders\u00a0are common.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of hereditary heart muscle diseases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In some diseases of the body, proteins are formed, which clump into long protein strands and stored in different organs.\u00a0Amyloidosis is a collective term for such diseases.\u00a0One of them causes the protein filaments to be stored in the heart and is called hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, FAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This hereditary change leads to high blood pressure in the blood vessels of the lung and is called hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension, PAH.\u00a0The disease affects both the lungs and the right ventricle of the heart and makes it easier to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sudden cardiac death among people younger than 40 is often due to a hereditary cardiovascular disease that has not been discovered.\u00a0It differs from sudden cardiac death at higher ages which are often due to myocardial infarction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the described diseases, there are hereditary variants of blood fat disorder, aortic disease, cardiac muscle disease, increased blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation and disease that causes sudden unexpected cardiac death in young people, younger than 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order for you to be involved in your treatment, it is important that\u00a0you understand the information you receive.\u00a0Ask questions if you don’t understand. The National Board of Health and Welfare has developed national guidelines for how hereditary cardiovascular diseases<\/em> and a number of other diseases should be investigated and treated.\u00a0The guidelines contain recommendations for health care about certain examinations and treatments that may be of interest to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the area, there are also examinations and treatments that are done more routinely.\u00a0They are not included in the guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here you can read the patient version of the national guidelines for hereditary cardiovascular disease<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some diseases of the heart and blood vessels are hereditary. The diseases can be followed for several generations in a family. They differ from folk diseases such as stroke, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, which largely depends on your living habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,335,281],"tags":[341,340,339],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diseases","category-heart-trouble-and-heart-failure","category-heart-blood-and-lymph-nodes","tag-hereditary-aortic-disease","tag-hereditary-blood-fat-disorder","tag-hereditary-cardiovascular-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepedia.com\/medical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hereditary blood fat disorder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary aortic disease<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary ion channel diseases of the heart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary heart muscle diseases, so-called cardiomyopathies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary storage disease of the heart muscle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sudden unexpected heart death in young people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Influence and participate in your treatment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Children should also\u00a0be involved in their treatment.\u00a0The older the child, the more important it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe patient version of the National Board of Health and Welfare’s national guidelines for care in hereditary cardiovascular diseases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n