According to who, cardiovascular diseases today are the leading cause of death worldwide. The organization’s experts insist that people are not well informed about prevention of cardiovascular disease and often are at the mercy of common myths about heart.
Sometimes you can hear: if you’re going to have a heart attack, so be it. But scientists who refute this “postulate”, refusing tobacco and alcohol and also increasing the level of physical activity, making your food healthier and by normalizing the weight can protect your heart from dangerous violations.
Also, many people believe that measure pressure on a regular basis “just because” is not needed, and running for blood pressure only if you feel unwell. This is also a big mistake, experts say.
According to medical professionals, hypertension is often asymptomatic. Meanwhile, that hypertension is a major preventable cause of cardiovascular disease. Early detection of hypertension can help prevent complications, remind the doctors and suggest regularly measure blood pressure at home.
Do not think that cardiovascular diseases occur equally in men and women. Scientists point out that it is one of the common misconceptions. Experts emphasize that manifestations of cardiac diseases often depend on the gender.
“The symptoms in men when a heart attack is usually more typical, but women more often “silent heart attack” flowing almost asymptomatic,” he warned scientists.
According to reports, up to 40 percent of women who have been diagnosed with a heart attack, not feel any chest pain, while 50% of these women began to experience trouble sleeping about a month before a heart attack.
Is it true that if you have problems with heart exercise is contraindicated? Scientists say that it is also a myth. They note that speaking about the need to increase the level of physical activity, the majority of physicians mean load at moderate intensity – walking in nature, walking and the like. People who increased activity is contraindicated, very little – most of it is physically necessary, experts believe.
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