05 July 2012

Relationship of Cardiovascular Disease, Hypercholesterolemia, and Healthy Lifestyle

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The fact of the WHO said that there was one death from cardiovascular disease every two seconds, every five seconds a heart attack and stroke due every six seconds. Each year an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease.

What is Cardiovascular disease?
Cardiovascular disease is a term for disorders that cause heart disease (cardio) and blood vessels (vascular). There are three forms of cardiovascular disease, namely coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease.

Coronary heart disease is a disease of blood vessels that supply the heart. The implication includes myocardial infarction (heart attack), angina (chest pain), and arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythm).


Cerebrovascular disease is a disease of the blood vessels supplying the brain. The implication include stroke (brain cell damage due to lack of blood supply) and transient ischemic attack (temporary damage to vision, speech, feeling or movement).

Peripheral vascular disease is a disease of blood vessels that supply the arms and legs resulting in pain for a while to come and go, as well as pain due to leg muscle cramps during exercise.

What are the causes of cardiovascular disease?
Heart attack and stroke mainly caused by atherosclerosis (fatty deposits) in arterial walls of blood vessels that supply the heart and brain. The fatty deposits that lead to the formation of lesions that accumulate over time will grow and thicken so that narrow the arteries and block blood flow. Blood vessels will eventually harden and are less flexible.

Cardiovascular disorders caused by atherosclerosis is associated with reduced blood flow due to heart and brain do not receive adequate blood supply. Subsequent blood flow resistance can result in more serious cardiovascular episodes, including heart attack and stroke.

Obstruction of blood can also cause a tear in the arterial tissue, which then swell and can inhibit all the blood vessels leading to heart attack or stroke.

There are a number of factors that cause a person's risk of cardiovascular disease. These risk factors are divided into two groups, which can be controlled and which can not be controlled. 80 percent of coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases are caused by risk factors that can be controlled.

Controllable risk factors include high blood cholesterol levels (hypercholesterolemia), hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and lifestyle (sedentary, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption). While the risk factors that can not be controlled include age, gender, and family history of cardiovascular disease.

In fact, about 75 percent of cardiovascular disease worldwide are caused by conventional risk factors including obesity, lack of physical activity, and tobacco use (smoking). While in developed countries, one third of cardiovascular disease risk factors that caused the five tobacco, alcohol, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and obesity.


Hypercholesterolemia and healthy lifestyle
One risk factor for cardiovascular disease can be controlled is high blood cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia).

Indeed, cholesterol is present in every cell of the body and every cell needs it. Increased risk of cardiovascular disease when there is a lot of fat in the blood. Weight loss, low-fat diet, and lifestyle changes can lower cholesterol. Sometimes, these three are not enough. Cholesterol levels remain high so that your risk of heart attack or stroke.

Cholesterol is just one type of fat (lipid) in the blood. Often times people think that cholesterol is toxic, but we can not live without cholesterol. Cholesterol is essential for the body's cell membranes, insulation (sheath) of nerve, and produce certain hormones. Cholesterol also helps the digestive process.

The liver produces about 80% of cholesterol in the body. The rest comes from the consumption of animal products.

As well as nutrients from food, cholesterol is delivered to the whole body via the bloodstream. In this process, cholesterol forms a bond with the protein. Koleterol-protein package is called a lipoprotein.

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein / LDL) cholesterol is often referred to as, Äújahat, Äù. Over time this cholesterol with other substances accumulate in the blood vessels and cause plaques. This plaque can lead to blockages that cause heart attacks and strokes.

In contrast, high density lipoprotein cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein / HDL) cholesterol is often referred to as, Äúbaik, Äù as helping with clean up cholesterol from the blood vessels.
Ways to lower blood cholesterol levels is by making changes in lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle is the best option. As for how to lower cholesterol levels include the following:

Get regular exercise.
Maintain a healthy weight.
Subtracting the amount of alcohol, carbohydrates and saturated fats in the diet.
Consume lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and beans.
Consume only skim milk, cheese, sour cream and low fat yogurt.
Reduce the consumption of lean meat, skinless chicken and fish.
Avoid foods high in fat and rich in cholesterol, such as french fries and other fast foods, tortillas, sausage, bacon, hot dogs, cakes, pastries and other desserts.
Do not fry your food, but the cook with a microwave, boiled, grilled or baked.
Avoid saturated fats, found in meat or other animal products. Saturated fats increase blood cholesterol levels, although foods containing saturated fats be labeled "cholesterol free". For example, cholesterol-free cookies may be rich in saturated fats like palm oil or coconut oil, which will raise your cholesterol levels.
There are no recommendations regarding the intake of total fat per day. However, you should try to limit it to 30% or less of total calories per day and fat derived from saturated fat must be less than 10%.

Indeed, no intervention can be done on risk factors that can not be controlled. Age, sex, and history of cardiovascular disease in the family is impossible to change. The next obvious step is how to manage that risk factors can be controlled.

It is clear that risk factors can be controlled more dominant contributing cause of cardiovascular disease. Although treatment can be performed on almost all forms of cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes mellitus, but they passed away to the individual to run a healthy lifestyle. As far as possible avoid the risk factors that can lead to cardiovascular disease is the best way to do.

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