No entry for Heart Attacks

[Guest guest]

An important international heart study published in the prestigious

medical journal The Lancet, showed that patients with coronary artery

disease who add the safe and inexpensive blood pressure drug

perindopril (Coversyl®) to their existing treatment can significantly

reduce their risk of heart attacks and heart related deaths. In fact,

perindopril (Coversyl®) reduced the risk of heart attacks and death by

20 per cent even in patients considered relatively low risk. " This is

a major step forward and will have important implications in the

future management of coronary disease "

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[Guest guest]

It is important to realize that not everyone who gets heart attacks have high

blood pressure or cholesterol. Even marathon runners and jogging vegetarians

like me get heart attacks. Heart disease is very complex. Good blood pressure

is essential but not everyone is created equally genetically and there are

predispositions for hypertension even among thin active individuals.

Inflammation is now a key role in heart disease which may explain why some

active apparently healthy individuals get heart disease while others without

such healthy lifestyles do not. I had a friend who was morbidly obese and was

considered low risk for heart disease because that is what the test results

indicated.

 

There are also different molecular types of good(HDL) and bad(LDL) cholesterol

and some are better than others. HDL level is now considered to be as important

if not more important than LDL but HDL is much more difficult to change because

it has a strong genetic predisposition and much more difficult to change with

diet, exercise and medications.

 

Systemic inflammation is caused by a variety of factors including illnesses,

diets, injuries, the amount of certain proteins present in the blood stream,

etc. One of the things a lot of people don't realize is that cholesterol

lowering medications are strong anti-inflammatory medications and that may have

more to do with decreasing heart attacks than cholesterol. Diet can reduce

systemic inflammation but everyone is different so we cannot generalize. Those

with rheumatoid arthritis need to have a vegetarian diet without gluten to

reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease while gluten might have no impact on

someone without rheumatoid arthritis.

 

Due to the complexity of heart disease and the different types of heart disease

it is important for anyone who has this diagnosis do their research. Heart

disease can be baffling at times. Two weeks after I had a heart attack I took a

4 mile walk and was taking 30-40 mile bicycling trips six months later. No one

could believe it which just goes to show how individual it can be. Not everyone

is that lucky.

 

Richard

 

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

 

---Pema Chödrön