As Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Bakulev National Medical Research Center of Cardiovascular Surgery Leo Bokeria said, a healthy lifestyle (HLS) keeps the heart healthy and can add an additional 20 years to a person's life.
— A healthy lifestyle is a healthy heart, plus 20 additional years of a person's life, — Bokeria said at a press conference in the press center of the Russia Today media group.
World Heart Day is celebrated on September 29.
According to the doctor, the main “killer” is hypertension, as it can lead to brain death and heart failure. Hypertension is dangerous because people may not realize for a long time that the disease is developing.
Varicose veins are also a common disease, they can provoke the formation of blood clots with all the ensuing consequences. Arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, and myocardial infarction are common.
What symptoms should you pay attention to first to prevent these diseases?
— If you feel pain in the chest, you should immediately consult a doctor. In particular, with myocardial infarction, patients complain of a burning, unbearable pain behind the breastbone. Even if the pain occurs periodically and is not very strong, you still need to go to the doctor, because one day it can end badly. The second serious sign of heart disease is shortness of breath. There may also be frequent dizziness, which indicates poor blood supply to the brain, — Bokeria noted.
A person who walks two hours a week, not running, but not at an easy stroll, lives six to eight years longer than his peers
A healthy lifestyle, according to the academician, is proper sleep, proper nutrition, and physical activity.
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Leo Bokeria Medicine cardiac surgeon, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the Bakulev National Medical Research Center of Cardiovascular Surgery