Cardiovascular disease or heart disease is one of the most prevalent health disorders affecting millions of people across the world. The American Heart Association categorizes the risks associated with it on the basis of its curable and incurable stages. Amongst the major risk factors that cannot really be cured include:
- Increasing age- Research suggests that people aging more than 65 years are prone to heart diseases. In fact, around 80% of the people belonging to this age group succumb to fatal cardiovascular diseases.
- Heredity- A report issued by the American Heart Association claims that children whose parents have been diagnosed with any heart disease are at a greater risk of acquiring it at a later stage of their lives.
- Gender- Heart disease is largely associated with the male gender. However, if reports are to be believed, around 250,000 women die annually on account of cardiovascular diseases. Most women acquire this fatal disease post menopause.
Some of the major cardiovascular risk factors that can be cured are:
- Increased blood cholesterol levels
- High blood pressure
- Cigarette smoking
- Inactive lifestyle
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Excessive Stress
Besides some of the unavoidable risk factors, cardiovascular diseases can be effectively combated by exercising a little restrain. For instance, a little amount of cholesterol is beneficial to health but its increased presence causes heart attacks and even strokes. The American Heart Association recommends around 300 milligrams of cholesterol per day. Not only that, the fat content of the total calories consumed should not exceed more than 29-30%, with the saturated fat counting not more than 10% of the total calories.
In their urge to bring down high levels of low density lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol levels, many people take recourse to alcohol so as to increase the concentration of high density lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol levels. Nonetheless, they fail to understand that alcohol induces numbing of the senses, thereby leading to increasing cases of traffic accidents, drowning, or boating deaths. Hence, alcohol cannot be regarded as a full-proof solution to combat increased LDL cholesterol levels.
As diet forms an essential factor regulating the onset of heart diseases, so are the other injurious habits like cigarette smoking. Chain smokers are prone to a high risk of cardiovascular and lung diseases. On the other hand, lifestyle also plays an important role in deciding the health status of a person. A complete inactive lifestyle as well as an excessively strenuous one can both be the cause of a deteriorating heart condition.
Cardiovascular risk factors should thus be given proper consideration so as to prevent any fatal outcome.
Heart disease risk, triggered by some of the curable factors, can be easily put at bay by following the norms of a healthy lifestyle.
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