Heart disease: How to reduce the risk
cardiovascular diseases How strokes are among the leading causes of death worldwide. With some Measures can the Risk for such diseases can be significantly reduced. Especially certain groups of people can benefit, a new study shows.
A new Study shows that compliance with the “Life’s Essential 8– Key actions identified by the American Heart Association (AHA) to improve and maintain good cardiovascular health – significantly reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Emphasizing the importance of healthy sleep
The scientific study also shows that a healthy sleep, recently in this List was included, helps to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
“Sleep health may have great potential for improving cardiovascular health in the general population”, the lead author of the study, Dr. Xiang Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, in a communication the AHA quotes.
Die Results are considered preliminary until full results are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Catalog of measures extended
The AHA developed Life’s Simple 7, the precursor to Life’s Essential 8, in 2010 to promote research that has shown which actions have the greatest positive impact Effects have on cardiovascular health.
These included not smoking, being physically active, eating a healthy diet, a healthy Weight and to monitor blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
The metrics were updated last year to clarify several components and add one more. Cigarette smoking was through Nicotine exposure replaced to include e-cigarettes and passive smoking.
A Guide to Evaluating nutritional quality was added outlining the elements of two dietary patterns (the DASH and the Mediterranean diet) that have been shown to promote good cardiovascular health. And the cholesterol component has been updated to focus on non-HDL cholesterol instead of total cholesterol.
The biggest change, however, was the addition of the sleep durationfollowing a growing body of research found that adults who get seven to nine hours of sleep each night are better able to manage cardiovascular factors such as weight, blood pressure and risk of type 2 diabetes.
64% reduced risk of cardiovascular disease
In the new Analyse used UK Biobank data to assess how well they adhered to Life’s Essential 8 in 137,794 cardiovascular disease-free adults.
On a 100 point scale the results were classified as low, medium or high adherence. Genetic risk scores for coronary artery disease (CHD) and stroke were also included. The participants were almost evenly distributed between men and women and were on average 55 years old.
After a middle follow-up time By 10 years, those with high adherence scores had a 66% lower risk of CAD, 55% lower risk of stroke, and 64% lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those with low adherence.
With the Life’s Essential 8 model, compared to the previous one checklist better predicted who would develop cardiovascular disease.
Women and young adults benefit in particular
The analysis also showed that women have a larger To use draw from the observance of the eight measures than men. As adherence increased, the risk of coronary artery disease and cardiovascular disease decreased more in women than in men.
In addition, the protective association between adherence scores and cardiovascular risk in those younger than 55 years of age stronger than in older adults.
“This is a optimistic message for women and young adults that by following these behaviors they can significantly reduce their future risk of heart disease.”, according to Dr. Jamal Rana, chief of cardiology at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in California.
“But that means notthat men or older adults should not also follow the measures”says Rana, who was not involved in the new research.
Adhere to a healthy lifestyle
The Connection between adherence to measures and risk of coronary heart disease was stronger in people with a low genetic predisposition to the disease.
People with low genetic risk and high compliance were more likely to have a coronary heart disease developed, 78% lower than in those at high genetic risk and low compliance.
Likewise, the likelihood of having a stroke was around in people with a low genetic risk of stroke and high adherence to measures 64 % lower than in individuals with a high genetic risk and low adherence scores.
Rana says he would like to see more data on how people with a high genetic predisposition for cardiovascular disease would be affected by greater adherence to Life’s Essential 8.
“How much of their future risk might be caused by a healthy lifestyle to be changed? This is the next question to examine”according to the scientist. “Because genes are not destiny.” (ad)