For the blood to make its journey efficient and effective, the circulatory system relies on a clear passage and vessel elasticity, the points where the blood concentrates and how forcefully it moves, vary. When a person is eating, the blood supply to the stomach increase in order to aid in digestion.

When the body is cold, it concentrates in the inner vessels in order to conserve heat: when the body ia warm, blood rushes to the skin, through which blood is dispelled. Blood flows through the healthy bodies then readily. As a person grows old, arteries naturally grow thicker and calcium deposits form also the walls. Other factors, including hypertension (High blood pressure), High cholesterol diabetes smoking, Obesity and stress can damage delicate blood vessels. This progressive hardening arteries is called Arterioselerosis.

As arterioselerosis advance, occlusions or blockages coupled with increasing rigidity in the arteries can impede the blood flow. If blood is prevented from reaching the tissues for a long period of time they become deprived of the nutrients and oxygen that they need for healthy functioning. Most people affected by vascular disease or over the age of 50 to 60.Men are at least 3 times more likely to have silent vascular disease then women. That becomes apparent only with diagnostic tests.

During the early stages of arteriosclerosis, there are often no symptoms. When there are symptoms, they tend to be seen merely as a nuisance. Leg pain or cramps, edema(swelling) around the ankle, and cold, painful sensations in the hands or feet – they can be warning signs of more serious systemic heart disease.

Signs that the blockages is severe includes pain in the buttocks or things, as well as leg pain that occurs during rest. At its worst, a serious and prolonged lack of blood to the tissue can cause critical ischemia (oxygen deprivation) in the leg, foot and toes, showing up as ulcerations (sores that do not heal) and gangrene (death of tissue and subsequent bacterial invasion).

The symptoms of arteriosclerosis vary in type and severity, depending on how much of the circulatory system is involved. The FDA USA approved procedures and treatment through non – surgical methods can open up the vessels and develop collaterals.

Oxymed hospitals has so far successfully treated more then 10,000 patients under the technical collaboration of Vaso Meditech USA, for various vascular disease including heart disease without surgery. The present most advanced technology for diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) is the 700 slice CT Angio. Oxymed takes pride in offering Asia’s 1st CT Angio 700 slice as a 2 minutes simple non invasive procedure to detect heart blocks.