Choose your parents,
Be a female.
If you are a female, delay your menopause.
Don’t grow old.
These may well be the best advice I could give to anyone to prevent developing cardiovascular disease.
Age, male sex, bad genes and postmenopausal stage are non-modifiable risks that even doctors cannot change.
The other risk factor that some of us may have are fortunately modifiable.
Obesity, hypertension, diabetes milletus, dystipidymia, smoking and sedentary lifestyle are the factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD)
People with so-called metabolic syndrome have a bit of these risk factors.
They have slight blood pressure elevation, impaired fasting blood glucose, dyslipidemia and abdominal obesity.
Clustering of these abnormalities in one individual gives him 2-4 times the risk of developing CVD.
Tips for healthy heart are therefore directed at addressing the modifiable risk factors.