The Cause of Heart Disease Is It Your Parents Fault? Part 1

The Cause of Heart Disease Is It Your Parents Fault? Part 1 by Elliot Jarves

If your mother and father had heart disease, and their parents before them, you may feel doomed to heart failure. While it is true that heredity is a cause of coronary heart illness, it is only a factor among many others. One recent group analysis even suggests heredity accounts for less than 10% of a person’s risk of developing heart disease.

So, What is the Other 90%?

Doctors do not agree on the number one cause of heart disease, but smoking, obesity, drinking, and high cholesterol are front runners in any survey.

The contaminants in tobacco damage artery walls, making it easier for cholesterol deposits to accumulate an unhealthy, blood-blocking area in the body. Smoking also makes platelets, the component of blood that causes clotting, to be more active, and there for the risk of a killer clot increases.

A body needs cholesterol and can actually create all it needs, so when we eat foods high in cholesterols, like dairy and meat products, our bodies get a lot more cholesterol than we require. Our body deposits cholesterol instead of excreting it, and that cholesterol gets stored along the walls of the arteries. Too many cholesterol deposits lead to artery restrictions and blood clots.

High blood pressure is also a widely recognized cause of coronary heart illness. Imagine this, if your arteries are narrowed because of all that cholesterol retained in there, yet your body is the same size and requires the same amount of blood; so your heart is attempting to circulate a lot more of blood through a passage that is getting too small. Just like the motor of an air conditioner can get worn out trying to push air through a filter that no one has cleaned, your heart can over burden itself, trying to force blood through blocked passages.

Obesity, not just because of all the health related issues that come with it, is another cause of heart disease. Often being over weight comes with high cholesterol and blood pressure, which we all have come to know increase the peril of heart disease, but new studies are also showing a correlation between abdominal fat and heart disease in a way that is not yet fully understood. Either way, as the circumference of stomach increases, the risk of heart disease seems to multiply more.

Also, stress causes an in particular decline in health and is particularly associated with heart disease. So, unless your farther and mother are stressing you out enough to cause a heart attack, they are not the cause of coronary heart disease.

Heart Disease Still Plaques Our Society Today Even Though Great Strides Have Been Made In The Medical Profession. To Learn More, Continue to, "The Cause of Heart Disease Is It Your Parents Fault? Part 2"

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