Cardiovascular Risk Reduction - do We have a way of preventing Heart Attacks?
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Thank you for posting @holbein81.
Excellent article regarding health as it relates to heart attacks.
Appreciated the illustrations. Cheers.
Thanks for the nice comment @bleujay
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@cleverbot I can get with a 15% reduction.. Exercise and I started a 30 day vegetarian challenge. Hopefully it will reduce the high blood pressure along with 25 mg of IC Hydrochlorothiazide a day. @steemprice
Seems like a bit of everything helps...
Having said that, I am drinking beer right now and getting ready to tuck into a huge lasagne. At least I don’t have a cigarette on the go...
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I did this same research myself and some top ways I found for risk reduction:
If you follow these and keep your non-HDL cholesterol very low, like under 60, then you'll probably not have a heart attack according to the Framingham risk assessment. Your risk will be less than 1% over 10 years.
A few things to note from what I found in my studies is that diet while it does play a role does not play the main role in terms of cholesterol plaque formation. Inflammation seems to play the main role which diet exacerbates but something like smoking cigarettes seems to be worse than eating fast food. This isn't to say it's a good idea to eat McDonalds on a daily or even weekly basis but to say that it's not necessarily the food which causes the plaque or the unstable plaque (which is one of the main causes of heart attack). Certain supplements promote plaque stabilization and these are good and keeping a very low non-HDL cholesterol level even promotes plaque regression which is very good.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment!!
Hopefully one day someone will discover a master switch that controls it all, but I guess until then a multi-pronged approach of covering diet, lifestyle and BP/lipid management will be the way forward, with incremental advances
I have to ask - when you say "I did this same research myself", what do you mean? I presume not a 4 year 10,000 patient multi-centre RCT? ;-)
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15% is a good start and hopefully this research will lead to even better options
But I did have s chuckle with this line maybe just a little understatement
Well, they are important because the heart is pretty important – most people struggle without on
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Haha thanks - I think you have to joke a bit, even if it’s a serious topic! Thanks for the tip as well!
Yes I do believe that is very true
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@tipU - send tips by writing tip! in the comment, get share of the profit :)Thank you for this. I'd better watch my diet and cut down on smoking.
this is really helpful..good to have you..upped
No problem - hope it was useful, I try to write at least one mainstream healthcare topic per week
Thanks for the comment and upvote - here's one back
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15% reduction is excellent. I believe that science will progress and that even better results will be achieved.
No doubt - it is just a question of when?
Thanks for commenting
Nice piece. Upvoted and follow!
Thank you - I am following you too - especially as you are in Dundee.
My grandfather was a surgeon there many years ago
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