Visceral fat and heart

Visceral heart

The heart that is covered, with visceral fat is called visceral heart or visceral fat heart, which means the person is overweight and is accumulated a high percentage of visceral fat, that got gathered around the heart.

The visceral fat is wrapping the parts of the heart, starting from the bottom of the pulmonary trunk, and continues spreading horizontally around the heart. Next, that are covered with the visceral fat are the top of the circumflex artery, top of the left anterior descending coronary artery, top of the right coronary artery, top of the right ventricle, where the visceral fat is spreading longwise horizontally over the top of left ventricle until the circumflex artery.

The more obese person is, the more visceral fat covers the heart. In a high stage of obesity, starts the visceral fat covering also the lower parts of the heart. The bottom of the right ventricle is starting to be coated with visceral fat, which is starting to spread from the top of the heart toward the bottom. The bottom of the right posterior interventricular artery is starting to get also the layer of visceral fat. From the top of the left ventricle is the visceral fat expanding now starting to blanket also the bottom of the left ventricle and the bottom of the circumflex artery.

From the frontal part of the heart, the lower part is also starting to be covered, with visceral fat. The diagonal artery and apex of the heart are also beginning to be covered from the visceral fat that is stretching from the top of the left and top right ventricle downwards toward the bottom of the left and top right ventricle. In this high obesity, the stage is layered also the right marginal artery.

Having the fat around your heart disrupts the normal functionality of the whole heart. Depending on how much a visceral fat the heart has, it can be also the local coverage of the heart’s parts with a visceral fat e.g. pulmonary trunk, left atrium, circumflex artery, left anterior descending coronary artery, left ventricle, diagonal artery, the apex of heart, right ventricle, right marginal artery, right atrium, right coronary artery, left atrium, right posterior interventricular artery and right ventricle.

Visceral fat heart symptoms

Overweight, obese, or excess visceral fat can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, that can affects the heart or blood vessels of the heart. Heart palpitations or heart pounding, fatigue, dizziness, pain or numbness in legs or arms, chest tightness, and chest tightness are the symptoms of a heart with excess visceral fat. A person can experience and feel the disease physically or not feel anything at all.

Causes of visceral fat around the heart

Poor eating diets and bad eating habits, result accumulation of visceral fat around the heart, because of uncontrolled consumption of food and drink which high in fat, salt, or sugar. are the results. Alcohol increases the weight because the alcohol suppresses fat from burning down, which may lead to visceral fat accumulation.

Simultaneously is alcohol high in kilojoules or calories energy, which adds more calories than we realize to our diet, causing us to gain body weight and visceral fat. Nerve cells in the brain, get the stimulation by the alcohol, which increases the feeling of hunger and causes appetite desire for food. Lack of exercise cause more gaining weight than a poor diet, which means being inactive in daily life, creates more visceral fat than an unhealthy diet, with fatty, sweet, and highly flavoured food.

Feeling emotional or physical tension is causing you stress, which increases your adrenaline and heart rate. Blood pressure is raised and energy supply is elevated, causing cortisone often called stress hormone to be released into your bloodstream, which creates a spill and overflow of energy in your body related to increases in your appetite through the search for a quick urgent supply of energy in the form of sweet and fatty foods.

Research indicates that visceral fat that is more easily heritable than subcutaneous fat because visceral fat is having a higher genetic influence and more predisposition to be overweight. Poor or lack of sleep is related to an increase in oxidative stress leading to cardiovascular disease and glucose intolerance resulting in high blood glucose levels, both connected to visceral fat around the heart.

Visceral fat and heart problems

Our heart is an important vital muscular body organ, that is delivering a continuous supply of blood, which is providing all necessary nutrition, oxygen, and waste removal to the brain and to all other parts of our body which can work and function properly to stay healthy and be biological alive.

Surplus of the visceral fat, that is attached to the external walls of the heart, surrounds the heart and creates dangerous heart problems, because it affects the external elements of the heart like the pulmonary trunk, left atrium, circumflex artery, left anterior descending coronary artery, left ventricle, diagonal artery, apex of heart, right ventricle, right marginal artery, right atrium, right coronary artery, left atrium, right posterior interventricular artery, right ventricle, left and right atrium, right posterior interventricular artery and others.

Visceral fat attached to the heart disrupts the normal function of particular components of the heart. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood and transfers it through the valve into the right ventricle if there is heavy pressure from visceral fat on the right atrium it contributes to abnormal heart rhythm and pounding. Left Atrium receives oxygenated blood from the right pulmonary veins, which transfer through the valve into the left ventricle.

The impact of visceral fat on the left Atrium is attributed to the most common problem of the left Atrium, which is high blood pressure and valve dysfunction. The right ventricle receives blood from the right atrium and is in charge of transporting deoxygenated blood to the lungs, where the blood gets again oxygenated and at the same time is the CO2 eliminated.

A strike of visceral fat on the right Ventricle interrupts its normal function it, which can cause numerous right ventricular problems like the failure of a heart, the rise of high blood pressure in the lungs and
heart valve disease.

The left Ventricle receives the blood from the left atrium, which then moves the oxygenated blood further to body organs. Disruption of the left Ventricle by visceral fat, a cause-effect on normal pumping efficiently, which generates high blood pressure.

The main functions of the heart are cycling the blood, regulating the pressure on the blood, and synchronizing the heart pulse. The visceral fat is oppressing and squeezing the heart, causing it to function incorrectly and the inappropriate knock-on effect of heart diseases.

To avoid future heart complications and treatments like heart bypass surgery, valve disease, peacemakers…, it is better to earlier prevent heart problems, by avoiding the accumulation of extra dangerous visceral fat in our body and especial around our heart.

COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT visceral fat HEART

Internal fatty heart vs external visceral heart

When we are starting to gain weight or being obese, means that we are starting to accumulate unnecessary fat, which can cause us in a long run many health complications. Even the heart can not avoid being struck by a dangerous excessiveness of fat. Surplus of the fat invades our hearts from both sides, from the inside and the outside.

Internal fatty heart means, that the fat is starting to gather and store up within the heart. Expansion of the fat in the heart is causing the collection of the fat on the walls of arteries that are connected to the heart. The process of accumulation of fats, cholesterol, and other substances on the walls of the heart’s arteries is called Atherosclerosis. A sticky fat deposit on the walls artery creates plaque in the heart.

Fatty deposits on the internal walls of the heart arteries are limiting the natural flow of the blood coming into the heart. Heart arteries are starting to become thick and hard, losing the flexibility and smoothness of delivering the right amount of blood into the heart. Atherosclerosis cause coronary heart diseases or coronary artery disease, that are related to interruption and blockage of necessary oxygen-rich blood supply.

There are several coronary heart diseases, that are creating problems for the heart because of accumulated fat on the artery of the heart, like obstructive coronary artery disease, which causes the artery to get narrower or in severe cases get completely blocked, bringing blood supply to the heart.

Coronary heart disease, which is associated with obstructive coronary artery disease is called coronary microvascular disease. The obstructive coronary artery disease is affecting the larger arteries, on the contrary, the coronary microvascular disease infects the inner walls of tiny coronary arteries, which are branches from the larger coronary arteries.

External visceral heart

The main types of cardiovascular diseases that we want to avoid, by getting fat, overweight or obese are coronary artery disease caused by fatty deposits in arteries and heart failure in the form of heart attacks and strokes. Unfortunately cardiovascular disease, because of the overweight and excessiveness of visceral fat one of the main causes of death in the world and America.

Cardiovascular diseases are affecting any gender, race, ethnicity, social or economic class. Layers of fat around our hearts are riskier than belly fat. Around the heart, we can find three main fat depots, that are the sources of the creation and expansion of the visceral fat around our heart, which are epicardial fat, pericardial fat, and intracellular fat.

Epicardial fat is a fat deposit made from visceral fat and is placed between the heart and the fibroelastic sac called the pericardium, that is carrying the heart. The main role of the pericardium is carrying and maintaining the position of the heart within the chest and at the same time protecting the heart from infection and inflammation.

Too much visceral fat on the pericardium causes the heart bag becomes too heavy and at the same time the walls of the pericardium start to pressure the heart, which is within the heart bag (pericardium) giving rise to heart troubles, causes local inflammation, and effecting coronary atherosclerosis.

Pericardial fat lies in the cardiophrenic angle, which is the angle between the heart which is our muscular organ, and the diaphragm, which is our respiratory muscle sheet of the internal skeleton. Excess to pericardial fat, that surrounds the heart can double the potential risk of heart failure compared to other fat attached to a heart. And the combination of pericardial fat and emerging visceral fat is the worst scenario for our hearts.

Intracellular fat is the fat in the form of oil bodies called lipid bodies or droplets, which can be found in the cardiac muscle of the heart called the myocardium. The cardiac muscle is the main tissue material from which is built the wall of the heart responsible for pumping the blood around the body.

Surplus of visceral fat on the surface of the heart, cause fatty infiltration in the cardiac muscle, triggering the overgrowth of the intracellular fat in the muscle tissue of the heart bringing about myocardial disease and inflammation of heart muscle, weakening the ability of the heart to pump the blood.