From genetic conditions to lifestyle habits to social and environmental contexts, an individual’s heart faces many threats.
Cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death in the world, despite the expansion of the health field in the innovation of treatments.
Medicine has been concerned with treating heart diseases such as implants, replacement pumps for the heart chambers and treatments for damaged tissues, especially since the death rate from cardiovascular diseases is about 33%, or about nineteen million deaths each year, according to data from the World Heart Federation.
Three-quarters of all cardiovascular deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, underscoring the importance of prevention.
The majority of cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by eating a healthy diet, avoiding physical inactivity and not smoking, according to the World Health Organization.
1 out of 4 people worldwide die of heart disease
Cardiovascular and blood pressure specialist Dr. Sami Shri said that the most common heart diseases in the world are diseases related to the arteries of the heart, which are usually associated with strokes and angina pectoris, and they are usually common diseases in the first and second world, that is, the most developed countries.
Dr. Sami Shri indicated that the population of the first and second worlds are subject to stress, and their eating is fast and sometimes unhealthy, and the lack of exercise also, in addition to other habits, affects the heart in these societies.
Sami considered that the high incidence of diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol due to a bad lifestyle such as smoking, stress and eating fast food, increases the incidence of heart disease, and out of every four people a person dies of heart disease across the world, “and this is a large number, heart diseases are very important and monitoring the causes of This disease is very important.”
Shri stressed that people who have a family history characterized by cases of heart disease injuries and deaths, for example, at the age before fifty years, should do early periodic check-ups to avoid this health predicament, through blood tests, cholesterol, diabetes and effort planning to see if they are ready. For coronary heart disease, and “in general, it is advisable for people to have regular heart check-ups in their forties.”
The cardiologist explained that, “through modern technology, a tomography of the heart’s arteries can be performed for people who have warning signs of heart problems, for example those who suffer from a high level of cholesterol, to detect their heart health and conclude the degree of risk of the stage they are in, and based on that In some cases, a decision is taken to intervene quickly to prevent the situation from worsening and the disaster from occurring.”
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