Metabolic Health
Here’s How to Lower the Risks of Heart Disease and Strokes in Five Steps.
Healthy lifestyle habits can enhance our heart health as well as brain health.
Importance of Cardiovascular Diseases
One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease, according to CDC.
Around 659,000 people in the US die from heart disease each year. And globally, 17.9 million die from cardiovascular diseases, according to the World Health Organization.
Heart disease (clogged arteries), heart attacks, stroke, congenital heart defects, and peripheral artery disease are classified as cardiovascular diseases as documented by NIH.
One of the critical patterns of cardiovascular disease is atherosclerosis. Therefore, it is considered a root cause of these diseases.
Atherosclerosis refers to the process of plaque building up in the walls of the arteries. Increased plaque narrows the arteries. As a result, it makes blood flow harder, causing stroke or heart attack.
Purpose of the Story
This story is not about treating heart disease or stroke. Instead, it is about reducing the…
