CVD Awareness

High cholesterol causes 4.4 million deaths every year. And 24% of CVD-related deaths are attributable to high LDL cholesterol. This makes high LDL cholesterol one of the major risks of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).
Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in your blood. It is either manufactured by the body or obtained from diet. There are different types of cholesterol, it is the LDL cholesterol that is bad in excess amounts and is capable of damaging the heart.

How to prevent high LDL cholesterol?
✓Avoid a diet high in saturated fat (found, for example, in animal products) and trans fats (found in various industrially processed foods)
✓Avoid excess sugar and starch intake
✓Maintain regular physical activity, atleast 30 minutes per day.
✓Quit smoking- cigarette smoking damages the walls of the blood vessels, making them more likely to accumulate fatty deposits.
✓Keep your blood sugars normal

High cholesterol has no symptoms. The only way to know if you have high cholesterol levels is to have a simple blood test.
Cholesterol levels should be measured at least once every 5 years in everyone over age 20.
Men aged over 35, women aged over 45 and people with a family history of high cholesterol, heart disease or other risk factors, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, are at higher risk of cholesterol and should therefore be screened more frequently.

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Reference: World Heart Federation
https://world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/cholesterol/

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Of all the risk factors of CVDs, high blood pressure is has the strongest evidence of causing CVDs.
High blood pressure is blood pressure above 130/80.
One way high blood pressure causes CVDs is by putting a strain on the heart and makes it weak thus causing heart failure. The weakened heart enlarges to compensate for the reduced strength but this further weakens it.
Join us in preventing CVDs by keeping normal blood pressures:
✓Keep your BPs normal (less than 120 over 80)
✓Check your BP regularly (at least once every year for non-Hypertension patients, and roughly biweekly for Hypertension patients)
✓Hypertension patients should not stop taking their hypertension medicines (Currently, hypertension has no cure, the medicines are to be taken non-stop)
✓Low salt intake (no more than 2.3 grams per day, even lower for hypertension patients)
✓Eat a healthy diet (a diet with Fruits, Vegetables, Whole-grains, Low-fat dairy products, Skinless poultry and fish, Nuts and legumes, Non-tropical vegetable oils)
✓Limit alcohol intake (no more than two drinks per day for men and no more than one drink per day for women. A drink is one 12 oz. beer, 4 oz. of wine, 1.5 oz. of 80-proof spirits or 1 oz. of 100-proof spirits.)
✓Keep regular physical activity (this includes Brisk walking, hiking or stair-climbing Jogging, running, bicycling, rowing or swimming, Fitness classes at your appropriate level, Activities such team sports, a dance class or fitness games)
✓Manage stress
✓Keep your weight in check (preferably BMI less than 25. Even small weight losses are beneficial if overweight)
✓Quit to***co smoking
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