• April 24, 2024

Cardiovascular diseases can be prevented with a diet that includes all food groups in adequate proportions and with moderate practice of physical activities, ensures the Dr. Hermes Ilarraza, of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine Service .

In an interview with GetQoralHealth, The cardiologist points out that 30% of Mexicans, that is, less than 40 million, suffer from hypertension or have high cholesterol levels.

When a person does not control their blood pressure, maintain a high-fat diet or choose sedentary lifestyle as a way of life, it increases their risk of developing cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, which is recorded in 70 thousand patients annually.

Food, key vs cardiovascular diseases

A study of Oxford University reveals that people who eat a vegetarian diet have a 32% lower risk of hospitalization or death due to a cardiac problem, than those who eat meat or fish.

The research published in the American Journal of Clinical Investigation He details that vegetarian individuals have low levels of cholesterol and blood pressure, they even have a healthier weight.

Improve your habits to take care of your heart

Dr. Hermes Ilarraza details that 30% of heart attacks do not present symptoms such as chest pain, tightness, anguish, vomiting, shortness of breath or tiredness, so that patients can not know the presence of cardiovascular diseases and experience a sudden death.

Therefore, recommend a healthy lifestyle that helps prevent this type of ailments such as a healthy diet, perform 30 minutes of exercise per day, since only three out of 10 people perform any physical activity to care for their heart.

Also, do not forget to visit the doctor once a year to check cholesterol and glucose levels and avoid alcohol and tobacco consumption. And you, how do you protect your heart?

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