Contributory factors to heart disease

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Contributory factors to heart disease

 

Diet is not the only factor that causes heart disease; lifestyle is also a very big factor.

Smoking deprives the blood of oxygen and also narrows the blood vessels. Smoking dramatically increases the risk of developing heart disease, lung cancer and many other diseases. These diseases are not always fatal but can seriously affect your quality of life. If a person smokes they are more likely to die before they retire.

 Smoking doubles your risk of dying from heart disease. Each year 35,000 British smokers die from heart disease.”

(Flora project for heart disease.)

Taking more exercise will help prevent C.H.D. as it has a direct link to obesity. When a person is overweight the body and the heart have to work harder. A lack of exercise can increase the chances of C.H.D. the body takes in a certain amount of fat per day, and needs to burn it all off through exercise or else the body cant cope and the fat causes the arteries to build up and clot. Having excess weight on the body gives a higher blood pressure.

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“About 1 in 7 of us will have high blood pressure at some point.”

It is advised to have your blood pressure checked by your doctor. Especially if you are over 35 you should have your blood pressure checked every 3 years or so.

There is no way to tell if you have high blood pressure or not as you don’t feel any different. Often you find out when it is too late.

Your doctor also advises cholesterol checks.

“10% of the population is genetically prelisposed as a result of dietary cholesterol”

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