Cardiovascular Heart Disease: Assess Your Risk

Cardiovascular heart disease comes in many different guises.  Coronary artery disease, high BP, stroke, rheumatic heart disease.   The list goes on.  If you pay attention to the World Health Org., about 12 million deaths are caused each year from some form of cardiovascular heart disease.  It is the absolute number one cause of death in adults the world over.
It’s estimated that more than 60 million folks from the U.S. are suffering from some type of cardiovascular heart disease.  It’s second runner up is cancer and even that number only covers half as many deaths as heart disease.  Coronary artery disease at this time is the first runner up in the type of cardiovascular heart disease that is killing the most people.

Fortunately, there is hope for prevention.  If you know the risk factors, and can assess your lifestyle honestly, then you have a very good chance at preventing cardiovascular heart disease and many of it’s forms.  It’s not always easy, and does take some major life style changes, but it can be done.

Generally, cardiovascular heart disease risk factors are split up into two categories.  Major risk and contributing factors.  Major heart disease risk factors are those that have been proven by medical science to have a direct impact on you hearts health, and cause heart disease.

Contributing risk factors tend to be those that doctors now think contribute, but don’t have any solid evidence of their exact role in causing cardiovascular heart disease.  It’s a sort of  better to play it safe than sorry mentality.

So basically, you need to assess your risk.  The more major and contributing factors you have, the more likely it is that you will develop cardiovascular heart disease of some sort.  Some of the risks can be eradicated, and others can be controlled.  By reducing or controlling as many as you can,  your risk of cardiovascular heart disease can be drastically reduced.

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