World Heart Day- Promoting Healthier Lifestyles Year-Round

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Nearly half of American adults are living with some form of cardiovascular disease, the American Heart Association (AHA) said in a striking statement earlier this year.

Today is World Heart Day 2019, a yearly observation to promote healthier lifestyles. Heart disease is this nation’s and the world’s No. 1 killer, claiming more than 840,000 lives in the U.S. in 2016.

Over the last few decades, there has been a decline in the death rates for both heart disease and cancer — due in large part to reductions in smoking and advances in early detection and treatment. But these rates are still too high since many risk factors for both heart disease and cancer are modifiable.

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[Theodor Feldman, M.D
Medical Director of Prevention and Community Health
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute]

Dr. Theodore Feldman:
Modifying your lifestyle can have a profound impact upon reducing the incidence of developing heart disease as well as cancer. And w- what we've come to realize, that if you have ideal lifestyle, uh, as it relates to nutrition, physical activity, cigarette smoking and weight, and you manage your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, you can reduce your incidence of developing heart disease by almost 90% over a subsequent 10-year period if all of those metrics are ideal.

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Dr. Theodore Feldman:
Well, interestingly, those same seven metrics, which has been coined "Life Simple 7" by the American Heart Association, has been associated in a variety of studies with not only the likelihood of reducing the chance of getting heart disease over the next 10 years, but reducing the incidence of all forms of cancer, diabetes, uh, obesity, and chronic lung disease by between 50% and 80%.

Dr. Theodore Feldman:
So the new guidelines around blood pressure management and cholesterol management have had a major impact upon raising awareness about the importance of those risk factors for preventing heart disease. And really what both guidelines have shared with us is that lower numbers are better.

Dr. Theodore Feldman:
The blood pressure numbers have been reduced now to 130 over 80 or below, regardless of age, and the cholesterol guidelines have basically been reduced to a total cholesterol below 175 and a bad or LDL cholesterol below 100. By driving those numbers down early in life, uh, and maintaining them at low levels, your chance of developing heart attacks and stokes have been dramatically reduced.

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