Perhaps you’ve wondered why in Chile, August is the month of the heart, or perhaps why there is a month dedicated to heart and not spend one month to the pancreas, another to the lungs, liver to another, and another to the stomach. The reason is very simple: The leading cause of death in our country and the world are not coronary heart disease and coronary.
Greater importance charged warned that when the subject is no longer a disease that occurs most often in the elderly, by contrast, the highest incidence of myocardial infarction occurs after 35 years, at least as well as reveal recent studies. This should not constitute more surprised if we analyze the Cardiac Risk Factors (FRC) and meditate on those most at risk.
Sedentary lifestyle. While this could be an FRC affecting mostly adults and older adults, and young people are exposed since graduate of secondary education, ultimately delivering compulsory physical activity, a sedentary life. A small percentage continues to be active and / or sports, especially the early years of ED. Superior, to abandon the practice proportionally increases the burden of obligations and responsibilities of adulthood.
Stress. Undoubtedly this FRC is increasingly present in our life, being the University Selection the first major sign of pressure for our young people, which somehow starts with qualifications from First East. Today, life requires “success” at any cost, a situation that marks many young professionals.
Food habits. For quite some time already, was installed in our country, fast food (Scrap), rich in saturated fats, which eventually will produce atheroma, responsible for arterial blockages, therefore vascular accident. Unfortunately our youth are the most exposed to this pollution, foreign, “because many have been educated in this cultural context. However, it suggests a return to natural foods, in fields related to sports, fitness, conservation groups, naturalists, ideological and other groups.
Smoking. The cigarette contains addictive substances that also act as vasoconstrictor blood, with a propensity and myocardial ischemia in the smoker. Although this FRC occurs in all ages, young people are manifested in high levels of cigarette consumption. It is noteworthy that every day there is more awareness of the harms of smoking in the general population.
Obesity. The FRC affects different segments of the population and is independent of dietary habits as is often associated with other aspects such as metabolism, some dysfunction of the endocrine system, inheritance or another.
Drugs. They are important FRC each in varying degrees. It is necessary to appoint especially cocaine, Ecstasy and Viagra as the most used by the population. Antidepressants and barbiturates used without a prescription, also pose a risk.
Alcoholism. While moderate alcohol consumption has no significant impact on heart health, alcoholism led to an extreme, can produce a dilated cardiomyopathy, which consists of a loss of contractile ability of the heart muscle, accompanied by an increase in cavities. It is a disease of poor prognosis, which in some cases requires a transplant. The prolonged abstinence can reverse the situation.
Genetics. A chromosomal level there is a factor vasoconstrictor, while inhibiting the body’s vasodilators. Likewise, high cholesterol, may also be the result of some genetic factor.
We could go on listing cardiac risk factors, but certainly, exercise is the answer to combat each of these, helping to ward off the spectre of a heart attack, especially if already suffered one. The post-stroke therapies provide physical exercise since the first week of rehabilitation and suggest a change in lifestyle to avoid a repeat a situation as serious as this.
No doubt lies in our hands to reverse this reality and start thinking in August as a month or more simply as “the month of the cats”
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