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Elevated levels of cholesterol cause 60% of cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death in Argentina, said today Sociedad Argentina de Cardiología (SAC).

A medical report presented at a press conference in this city, on the occasion to develop the “Heart Month”, pointed out that high cholesterol causes 18% of cerebrovascular disease and 59% of coronary artery disease.

Ricardo Iglesias, cardiologist SAC president, said that “despite these data, the good news is many of these diseases are preventable, and the vast majority are caused by an unhealthy lifestyle.”

Iglesias said that “smoking, physical inactivity and poor eating habits are cardiac risk factors, but taking simple preventive measures can reduce it and especially lowering levels of bad cholesterol.” Read the rest of this entry »

Cardiovascular diseases are those affecting the circulatory system, both the heart and the veins and arteries. And although most are related to unhealthy habits and unhealthy lifestyle, some have an hereditary origin.

CVD can affect the heart (heart failure, heart attacks, valve disease of heart and heart disease) and cerebrovascular (stroke, carotid artery disease and diseases periferovasculares).

Furthermore, the World Health Organization:

• They are the leading cause of death worldwide. Every year more people die from CVD than from any other cause.

• It is estimated that in 2005 died from 17.5 million people, representing 30% of all deaths worldwide.

• CVD deaths equally affect both sexes, and over 80% occur in low-income countries and media.

• It is estimated that in 2015 will die nearly 20 million people by CVD and is expected to remain the leading cause of death.

What You Can Do

To decrease your chances of getting heart disease, the National Institutes of Health recommends that you: Read the rest of this entry »

Drinking enough water is perhaps the most important thing you can do for your heart. You can also choose healthy foods to support the health of your heart. Here are some suggestions:

Green Tea

Green tea contains many powerful antioxidants that reduce bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol, improves cholesterol profile of an individual. Drinking green tea also appears to improve cardiovascular health by improving the consistency of blood platelets and may even lower blood pressure.

Garlic

Only one tooth in one day – or 300 mg three times a day – reduces the risk of a heart attack, at least in three ways: prevents the red blood cells from sticking together. Prevents blockage of arteries by cholesterol and reduce arterial damage. Read the rest of this entry »

Heart disease has constituted a major cause of death in the XXI century, which is why time is crucial to prevent them if we want to live many more years.

Heart disease can cause major problems like cardiac arrest that can lead us to death. These are mostly caused by high levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, high blood pressure, high levels of uric acid in the blood, metabolic disorders, obesity and smoking.

It is best to avoid them and control them if you already suffer from, with a balanced diet rich in nutrients and low in calories we can avoid suffering from complications in our hearts. Diets rich in foods that do not permit the formation of clots, clogged arteries and high cholesterol intake. Read the rest of this entry »

When you hear about the fruit or chocolate, chocolate certainly focused our minds about the foods or beverages containing chocolate. Many people think that foods made from chocolate always think when you heard about the fruit or chocaolate brown must focus our minds about the food or beverage containing chocolate. Many people think that foods made from chocolate are always thinking negative things for health, while I never thought that the food or drink that chocolate has a positive effect on health.

Cocoa powder, believed to contain active ingredients such as flanoid, which includes epikatekin powerful antioxidants. Read the rest of this entry »

We already knew that consuming too much salt in large quantities favored risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks, but European researchers are finally to quantify …

Teams of researchers from British universities (Warwick) and Italian (Naples) have shown that an increase in 5gr daily consumption of salt increased from 17 percent the incidence of cardiovascular disease and that 23 percent of heart attacks.

These results are the conclusion of thirteen research studying the blood pressure and salt consumption, covering 170,000 individuals. Read the rest of this entry »