Heart Disease?

 FACTORS DETERMINE HEART DISEASE

“Do you know heart disease is one of the most chronic disease suffered by many people around the world”? It was called silent killer that killed over 300 000 people in a year. Heart disease is not a numeric counts by age even you are young it still can attack you at any unexpected time. Actually it’s totally depends on the health of our body. Basically, heart disease also defined as “cardiovascular disease” which refers to the condition that involve narrows or block the blood vessels that can lead to the heart attack, chest pain (angina), coronary artery disease and also stroke. Other heart conditions, that affect your heart's muscle, valves or rhythm, also are considered forms of heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, approximately every 40 seconds an American will have a heart attack. Estimation about annual incidence of heart attacks in the United States is 720,000 new attacks and 335,000 recurrent attacks. 

Without wasting any time let’s proceed to the discussion on factor determines heart diseases. One of the main factor why heart disease attack you is definitely from your unhealthy nutrition or unhealthy food intake. Nowadays, food is becoming a heaven around the world because of existence a new recipe and new type of foods. As we know, mostly food right now are containing high amount of fat, cholesterol and also glucose in order to make it become more tasty, unique and delicious as well as we can see like cheese , sweeties food like donut and junk food such as instant noodle. According to World Heath Federation in 2016, modern environment food are contains high amount of cholesterol and fat which offer to cardiovascular disease. Excessive food containing a lot of fat and cholesterol could blocked and narrowed your blood vessels to supply blood into your heart as usual. Fat and cholesterol will accumulate in your blood vessels that make the amount of blood supply reserved to the heart will decreases slowly and not worked like normal as before. Furthermore, high glucose of foods also is the risk of heart disease. It is because pancreas cannot secrets insulin well and this will lead to diabetes. When this happens, artery wall in your heart will damage slowly. Studies showed that diabetes is one of the causes which could damage our heart in future if we do not deal it properly.

Figure 1: Unhealthy Food

The second factor of heart disease is used of tobacco and alcohol excessively. Generally, cigarettes contain so many dangerous particles such as tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide in which resulting atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a disease that have waxy substance called plaque builds up in the arteries. Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your arteries. This limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your organs and other parts of your body. 

Next, drink alcohol excessively also contributes in increasing the risk of heart disease.  Heavy drinking alcohol not only resulting heart disease but it also increase a risk in developing variety of diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes and also stroke. Certain alcohol is consist harmful drug such as cocaine. This harmful drugs may have a devastating effect on your heart and all organs in your body. Based on the research by Gregory Marcus in 2009, he identified the risk of alcohol abuse are associated with heart attack and heart failure.

Figure 2: Alcohols and Cigarette

Last but not least, the history of family heredity also affects on individual’s illness. It is because our body is made up of trillions of cells. Each cell has a nucleus, which consist of information that makes us unique. This information we called as genes. We have between 20,000 - 25,000 different genes in our body. Genes will affect how we look and how our bodies work, and we inherited them from our parents. Genes also can pass on high risk conditions such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. These conditions can increase your risk of developing heart diseases. Research has shown that variations in DNA at one position in chromosome 9 which is known as chr9p21 (novel markers for coronary artery disease) inherited from your parents. If you have this type of DNA in your body, it will significantly increase the risk to experience coronary heart disease in future. One professor in University of Cambridge discovered variation of this DNA makes blood vessels vulnerable to inflammation which is a key process in developing coronary heart disease.

Figure 3: Example of genes

In the nutshell, many people around the world did not aware and know how terrible and dangerous coronary heart disease. Once we experienced this silent killer, I am sure you will feel the worse pains ever in the rest of your life. Please don’t make it easy instead try to make this serious by avoid all factors and all causes of heart disease. However, research showed that we can lowering the risk of heart disease even your family history haunting you all the time. The only key to prevent this silent killer is by living in healthy lifestyle such as control your food intake, don’t skip physical activity and get enough rest at least sleep 6 to 7 hours per day. Please take note and always be aware in order to save our future generation from inherited this disease. Thank you !!!.