Unhealthy diet and lack of exercise can lead to cardiovascular disease
islamabad:
With the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) increasing alarmingly worldwide, health experts recommend staying healthy, including daily exercise, regular heart check-ups, and maintaining weight to avoid heart-related deaths. He called on the people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Pakistan too.
Senior cardiologist Major General Azhar Mehmood Kayani advised the public that the risk of heart-related death can be reduced by adopting a healthy lifestyle and regularly checking the heart to avoid the possibility of a heart attack. He urged them to undergo a thorough examination.
He stressed the importance of raising public awareness about cardiovascular disease and its prevention, adding that laziness and lack of outdoor activity are the root causes of heart disease.
He said people need to not only exercise but also adopt a healthy lifestyle to protect themselves from heart disease. Dr Kiyani said there was an urgent need to take heart disease seriously and work on its prevention, adding that diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking and an inactive lifestyle are the main causes of heart attacks.
In addition to genetic factors, smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, and poor diet, including eating fast food and fatty foods, are also major risk factors for heart attack, he said. “Obesity is the mother of most diseases, leading to high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” he stressed.
He said cardiovascular disease (CVD) is recorded in high-, middle-, and low-income countries, and that low- and middle-income countries lack adequate health resources to combat the burden of this disease. He added that there is a shortage of
Published in Express Tribune, March 12thth2024.
