Study Result of CVD

As the study of CVD shows that CVD can begin, “silently”, while people are still in their late teens and twenties. But, and this is the crucial point, we can help guard against it if we live in a healthy way. Many potential CVD victims lead sedentary lives, choose foods rich in salt and fats, are overweight, smoke cigarettes, and handle stress poorly. If we cut down on these risk factors, we can lower our chances of developing CVD.

Recently for reasons that are not yet known, there has been a downward trend in CVD-related fatalities in the general population. The actual number of CVD deaths has been declining since the early 1970s. eighteen years after the Korean War study, for example, soldier killed in Vietnam were the subjects of a similar study, and the results were not as alarming: only 45 percent of the soldiers hearths has narrowed arteries indicative of coronary atherosclerosis. But this does not mean we can relax our guard against CVD; a sizable percentage of the population is still at risk. It continues to be important for us to know what causes CVD and what steps we can take to help prevent it. First, we need to know a few basic facts about the heart and circulatory system.