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Tell Me What You Eat and I’ll Tell You How to Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

A healthy, balanced diet is a particularly effective way to prevent cardiovascular events. Our Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation expert ambassadors highlight the importance of healthy eating habits and urge practitioners to include this information in education and support measures for women of all ages. They report the results of an American report on the harmful effects of unbalanced diet and insist on the need to take into account dietary habits when evaluating patients’ cardiovascular risk.

Tell Me What You Eat and I’ll Tell You How to Lower Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

A group of American experts in nutrition and cardiovascular disease recently emphasized the urgency of routinely evaluating eating habits during routine check-ups. What we eat has a significant impact on our health. According to a 2017 report covering 195 countries around the world, it was estimated that poor nutrition is responsible for 11 million deaths and about half of all cardiovascular deaths. In this context, the experts emphasize the need for quick and simple tools that can be used to assess eating habits during routine check-ups and to include them in medical records for systematic follow-up. The objective is to outline concrete things patients should do to improve their diet and provide support to help them make these changes. A healthy diet can lower cardiovascular risk and has an impact on other controllable risk factors like cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, and excess weight. That’s why these experts say it’s necessary to have reliable tools for evaluating eating habits that are comprehensive yet quick. They should enable practitioners to outline actions to be taken because by Acting to improve their eating habits, patients will decrease their cardiovascular risk. “Our mission at Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation are to Alert, Anticipate and Act to support women so they can reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease.”
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/experts-urge-evaluation-of-diet-at-routine-check-ups

 
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