Tuesday, April 8, 2008

If heart disease runs in your family should you often get a check up for it

If heart disease runs in your family should you often get a check up for it?
Also what should be avoided in terms of food, drink etc. Does smoking increase the risk of heart disease?
Heart Diseases - 2 Answers
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Some families are affected by what physicians call hereditary familial hyper-(excessive) cholesteremia. In such a family the tendency to high levels of cholesterol in the blood is passed on for several generations. Among members of such families we usually find a large number of individuals who suffer heart attack and strokes. If no heart attacks or strokes have occurred in your own family line, you have at least one protective factor in your favor from the beginning. The second factor is one that is pretty much up to you. It concerns what you eat and how much you eat. The low-fat program can do wonders for your general health and well-being. It may even save you or your loved ones from heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses in which the role of the "killer" fat is unmistakable. Exercise and avoid smoking.
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Yes Genetics plays a Very Important Role in Heart Disease, particularly Ischaemic Heart Disease. If you are a man take Yearly Check Ups after 40 Years. If you are a woman, after Menopause. Fertile women normally do not have ischaemic heart diseases. But they could have Valvular defects. Other Risk Factors are: UNAVOIDABLE RISK FACTORS: 1. Genetics/ Hereditary 2. Gender: Male or Female AVOIDABLE RISK FACTORS: 1. Smoking - Biggest Cause. 2. Diabetes 3. Hypertension/ High Blood Pressure 4. Cholesterol: Food Habits 5. Sedentary Life Style : Lack of Exercise 6. Type A Personality: Stress Level 7. Excessive Alcohol: New Reseach: By Increasing Blood Pressure (3) above or Cholestrol (4) above

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