From socioeconomic factors to smoking, the cardiologist highlights which aspects are most harmful to heart health
Today is the World Heart Day (29/09), an opportunity to promote the importance of preventing cardiovascular diseases, which represent the main cause of death in Brazil. The date is also an opportunity to reveal the factors that most put heart health at risk.
According to Dr. Cláudio Vieira Catharina, cardiologist and director of the coronary unit of the Icaraí Hospital (RJ), several factors contribute to the Brazilian public health scenario. It highlights, for example, social inequality, the problems of low socioeconomic development and a diet and lifestyle model that does not allow the control of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
Among the physiological aspects that put heart health at risk, Cláudio highlights hypertension, cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, poor sleep quality and smoking. “You also have to consider the deprivation of free time and socioeconomic difficulties. All these factors are strongly present in our daily lives,” he says.
How to fight the enemies of the heart
The cardiologist reminds us that cardiovascular diseases are multifactorial and have a strong relationship with our unhealthy habits. According to him, the basis for a better heart condition is education in a lifestyle and diet associated with socioeconomic factors.
Therefore, preserving heart health is an approach that requires a number of initiatives. According to Cláudio Catharina, a collective social understanding of the severity of the problem is necessary. Furthermore, encourage the population to change our lifestyle pattern, which includes eating habits and sedentary lifestyle.
“All this combined with measures to better distribute income among Brazilians. Generate greater well-being, a higher cultural level and the possibility of improving the quality of life”, underlines the doctor.
From an individual point of view, the cardiologist recommends starting cardiovascular health care from childhood. That is, encouraging activities that avoid a sedentary lifestyle, creating healthy eating habits and training citizens committed to the well-being of others. “Spirituality, community well-being, healthy eating and active living are the main factors of cardiovascular health,” emphasizes Catharina.
“In our current scenario of great adversity, the routine evaluation can begin in obese people from their youth. In apparently healthy adults, with known undesirable habits or cardiovascular risk factors, the clinical evaluation can be started in the migration from second to second . third decade of life”, informs the specialist.
The doctor requires special attention to those who have a family history of early heart disease and familial lipid diseases. These must undergo cardiac evaluation at a young age.
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