A person’s risk of heart disease and heart attack greatly increases with the number of cigarettes he or she smokes. People who smoke have a two to four times higher chance of developing heart disease. Smokers continue to increase their risk of heart attack, the longer they smoke. When you smoke, the people around you [...]
The goal for anyone who wants a healthy body is not merely to lower your cholesterol level, but to maximize the good and minimize the bad types of cholesterol. There are in fact two kinds of cholesterol, one ‘good’ and the other ‘bad’. What differentiates the two types? Can you control your levels through any [...]
Heart attack is the most catastrophic presentation of a heart disease. If not treated effectively, it has a mortality of up to 25 per cent. A heart attack happens when blood supply to this vital organ gets blocked. It can be a silent disease and become a cause of sudden death with increasing age, in [...]