Keep your heart healthy
Adopting certin behvaiors will help you take care of your heart in your daily life
Our lifestyle and habits can contribute to the development of cardiovascular risk factors. Certain lifestyle factors can compromise our heart’s strength and potentially lead to cardiovascular disease, the world number one killer. The most important behavioural risk factors of heart disease and stroke are unhealthy diet, physical activity, tobacco use and harmful use of alcohol. These behaviours can lead to raised blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, overweight and obesity, which can lead to a risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
What is cardiovascular disease ? (CVD)?
It’s a class of diseases that affects the heart or blood vessels (veins and arteries). Over 20,5 million people die from CVD worldwide. Of these deaths, 85% are due to coronary heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases and mostly affect low and middle income countries. There are different types of cardiovascular disease: heart disease, heart attack, stroke, or other conditions such as arrhythmia, aortic disease, cardiomiopathies, congenital heart disease for exemple.
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There are many risk factors. Some risk factors, such as family history, cannot be modified, while other risk factors, like high blood pressure, can be modified with treatment.
You will not necessarily develop cardiovascular disease if you have a risk factor. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater the likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease, unless you take action and work to prevent your risk factors compromising your heart health.
References:
- World Heart Federation: What is a cardiovascular disease ? Risk factors ? https://world-heart-federation.org/world-heart-day/cvd-causes-conditions/what-is-cvd/
- Fédération française de cardiologie: Tips to adopt
- Fédération française de cardiologie: PDF “Santé du Coeur”