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Poor eating habits can lead to heart attack and death. |
Researchers say that unhealthy eating habits are one of the leading causes of heart disease.
Reducing heart disease deaths by two-thirds worldwide is possible only by following a healthy diet. The study was published in the European Heart Journal. "Unhealthy eating habits, high blood pressure, and high serum cholesterol are the three leading causes of death from a heart attack and angina," said Xinyao Liu, a researcher at China's Central South University who led the study. These two physical problems are collectively called ischemic heart disease. ” The study was based on data from the Global Burden of Disease Study in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016. In 2016, the number of people surviving with ischemic heart disease was about 127.5 million. And the number of new victims was one crore six million. The number of deaths from ischemic heart disease in 2016 was about 69 million, which is 16 percent of the total number of deaths that year. Ischemic heart disease accounted for 12.8 percent of all deaths in 1990. The researchers calculated the impact of 11 risk factors in the study. These ‘risk factors’ were eating habits, high blood pressure, harmful LDL cholesterol, excessive ‘plasma glucose,’ tobacco use, high ‘body mass index,’ air pollution, lack of physical exertion, decreased renal function, and ‘lead exposure.’ The researchers wanted to see the potential risk if a "risk factor" was eliminated. If all other risk factors do not change, it is possible to reduce the death rate from ischemic heart disease to 69.2 percent if healthy eating habits are followed. On the other hand, if systolic blood pressure is kept between 110-115 mmHg, the death rate from ischemic heart disease will be reduced by 54.4 percent. Tobacco use ranks fourth on the list of risk factors for ischemic heart disease. However, it is only for men. In the case of women, it is the seventh. |
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