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If your grandparents, mother & father all suffered from heart disease, you may feel doomed to heart failure. Even though heredity is a factor in the cause of heart disease, that is all it is, simply one factor among many. Heredity, according to one recent study may account for only ten percent of the risk factors.

Then what’s the other 90%?

Smoking

By now everybody must be fully aware that cigarettes contain various elements which will damage arteries, making it easier for cholesterol deposits to build unhealthy, blood-blocking plaque on the internal artery walls. Smoking also makes platelets, the component of blood that causes clotting, to be more active, & thus the risk of a clot rises.

Obesity

Another cause of heart disease, & various other health problems is obesity. Often obesity comes with high cholesterol & blood pressure, which we know increase the risk of heart disease, but new studies are also showing a correlation between abdominal fat & heart disease in a way that isn’t yet fully understood. Either way, as the circumference of stomach increases, the risk of heart disease seems to increase more.

High cholesterol

The body needs cholesterol & can actually produce all it needs, so when we ingest foods high in cholesterols, like dairy & meat products, our bodies get a lot more cholesterol than they need. The body saves cholesterol instead of excreting it, & that cholesterol gets stored as plaque along the walls of the arteries. Too many cholesterol deposits lead to artery blockage, Ischemic Heart Disease & clots.

High blood pressure

High blood pressure is also a major cause of heart disease. Imagine this, your arteries are narrowed because of all that cholesterol stored in there, yet your body is the same size & needs the same amount of blood; so your heart is trying to pump a lot of blood through a passage that is getting too small. Just as a car motor can get worn out trying to suck air through an air filter that has not actually been cleaned, your heart can overtax itself trying to force blood through blocked passages.

Stress is particularly associated with heart disease in addition to a general decline in one’s health.

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Paul Schaverien has suffered heart failure & disease for the past 10 years, having been hospitalised approximately sixty-five times during that time - he knows heart disease

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