Fats, cholesterol, obesity, and three pressure

Had a heart attack in the previous decades raid older after 60 years and older, but now also differed concerning the case and turned upside down when she began an emergency a lot of hospitals receiving casualties of heart attacks at age 30, which gives an indication of a grave in the growing number of patients, especially the factors cause of heart disease began to spread and expand its circle.
The question that is going on in our minds: Where is the imbalance, is in prevention programs, or in the wrong behaviors practiced by some, including smoking and lack of exercise? .. «View Hot» put the issue of heart disease at the table of specialist doctors to find out the imbalances, and how to address the problem before it increases the number of patients more.
Considered advisory heart at King Fahd Military in Jeddah, Dr. Hassan Shamsi Basha, that after a heart attack (myocardial infarction) is a disease very common in the West, and infects every year about 1.5 million people in America and, unfortunately, it is spreading in our Arab countries day by day and began is running out of young people in the age of thirty or forty, especially with the quality of life where there is smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and lack of physical activity, obesity, and exposure to psychological pressures.
He pointed out that the individual bears the greatest responsibility in the spread of diseases that afflict the heart as a result of the above risk factors, there are many individuals, unfortunately, is not aware of the importance of sport or avoid smoking or eating wisely, all these data led to the spread of the disease and the increasing number of people.
The «awareness of existing and tangible in our society, but that the individual must be a great deal of attention to his health, there are a lot of preventive programs implemented by the health sectors in order to diagnose all the imbalances in the body, and most importantly of all, avoid all risk factors that lead cause health problems from the premise that an ounce of prevention is better than cure ».
Root of the problem
And saw president of the Center of Jeddah for the heart, Dr. Huda Al-Khatib, it has become possible to contain the heart disease in all parts of the world if diagnosed properly and avoid risk factors that lead to the main symptoms of heart disease and blood vessels and manage effectively; because it is scientifically proven to address the roots of the problem is more important than treatment display itself, which is the most effective approach in terms of cost and in terms of overcoming the complications resulting from heart disease and blood vessels on both the individual and society.
The Dr. Khatib that reviewed studies published recently on the risk factors for heart disease confirmed that heart disease in the Kingdom stands at 5.5 percent of adults aged 30 to 70 years old, and considered the proportion of moderate compared to the proportions, the World showed «the concern is the high rate factors help heart disease, for example, the percentage of sugar in Saudi Arabia, 24 per cent and the pressure 26% and obesity 70 per cent, as suffering 50 per cent of Saudis from diseases of cholesterol and 97 per cent of the lack of exercise and lack of movement, and the proportion of smoking 33 per cent when men and 10 per cent in women.
And Dr. Al-Khatib warned of growing factors on the incidence of heart disease, and stressed the importance of developing a national strategy to control these diseases until the disease does not become an epidemic.
Smoking and heart
Turning a consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, the gap in Jeddah, Dr. Mohamed Yahya Kattan relationship of smoking by women bear children with birth defects, he says:
Smoking is generally considered one of the most important threats to the heart and injury crises, strokes, and unfortunate that many of the women of the community taking smoking hookah, tobacco is the phenomenon that threatens their health, and more dangerous than that for asylum pregnant women in pregnancy, which affects their health and the health of fetuses.
The «that all global studies demonstrated the seriousness of smoking on the fetus, and the last of these studies warn U.S. doctors that smoking by women during the first quarter of pregnancy increases the risk of giving birth to a child suffering from a congenital heart defect and has undertaken a Centers for Disease Control and prevention, Atlanta study showed that exposure to tobacco is linked to between 20 to 70 per cent of the increased risk of defects such as impeding the flow of blood from the left pane to the lungs and the holes between the upper parts of the heart.
The study of women smokers who are considering pregnancy should Iklan smoking and if they are pregnant Flihn stop, the study showed that women quit smoking before or during early pregnancy contributes to avoid defects in the hearts of hundreds of children ».
Dr. Kattan said that the prevention programs play an important role in perpetuating health awareness, but the problem lies in the indulgence of many individuals with health messages directed to them through all the media and national campaigns and preventive programs.
Food problems
Not only did the expert and nutrition consultant Dr. Abdulrahman Almusikr life style as the Gulf as an inert and non-healthy, since confirmed that, behind the prevailing diseases and chronic diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure.
He called Almusikr need to recognize the existence of many problems related to the nutritional, especially in the GCC countries, pointing out that there are many obstacles facing the nutrition concept is correct, and the most important problems of shortage of food and nutrition related to the problem of anemia, and nervosa and the lack of vitamins They appear in the school at high rates, and the problems associated with changing lifestyle and living conditions, diseases prevalent in the Arab world, the most important of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer, a disease related to high mortality rates we have, and these diseases are associated with nutrition, in addition to other problem is the food contamination caused by pesticides, or bacteria or chemicals.
Almusikr and continue to the WHO report said that 30 per cent of the causes of global mortality due to diseases of the heart and blood vessels, called for the need to intensify awareness programs that address heart-related problems.
Triglycerides
And agree a consultant cardiologist Dr. Ahmed Abdul Aziz with the previous opinion, he says, can cause heart disease when they gather lumps of fat on the walls of blood vessels from the inside, leading to a lack of blood flow, and consists of these blocks fatty interaction of an amino acid called homocysteine ​​with cholesterol, which is deposited on the arteries that supply the heart, and increase the amount of homocysteine ​​may cause material damage to the material that envelop the vessel walls, which will accelerate in the composition of the fat and with whom, research has shown that increasing the amount of substance homocysteine ​​in women has doubled the rate of heart disease.
He noted that the stroke is defined as blockage of total artery caused by blood clotting, or blood clot, preventing access of oxygen to the member who fueled this artery, indicating that in most cases get a blood clot in the artery injured calcification or hardening of the result from the concentration of cholesterol in the inside it and its interaction with platelets.
Dr. Abdul Aziz that there are many factors that interfere with each other and cause heart disease and the incidence of stroke is the most important of these factors: age, heredity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, obesity, lack of sports and activities, increase the level of homocysteine ​​in the blood, smoking, unhealthy diet, and when the overlap of genetic factors with other factors increase the likelihood of heart disease.