Heart Disease: The Big Bad Wolf
In my previous post, I talked about heart disease and the causes of the different types of heart conditions. How heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, how strokes and cardiovascular disease are linked together, having high cholesterol, blood sugar, or diabetes can increase your risk for getting heart disease. I also talked about how heart disease is can be cause by birth conditions or the types of things that you do such as consuming a lot of junk foods or lack of physical exercise.
According to heart.org, In 2008, heart diseases represented 30 percents of all diseases. About 2,150 Americans die each day from cardiovascular, that's about one every 40 seconds. Strokes and cardiovascular diseases cost man than $320.1 billion, in health expenditures and lost productivity. Nearly half of all African Americans adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, 48 percent of African American women and 46 African American men. Heart disease accounts for 1 in 7 deaths in U.S. Over 159 million U.S. adults are overweight or obese, most adults of the age of 20 are obese. It's estimated that about 1.46 billion adults globally were overweight or obese. High Blood Pressure puts people at risk for diseases, so it was no surprise to me when I had seen that 80 million U.S. adults have it. According to nydailynews.com, Noise pollution is linked to heart disease, people and animals that are exposed to constant loud noise have higher risks for heart disease. Researchers in Germany have found in a study that, noises from traffic, construction, and loud workplaces affects the bodies stress responses on a cellular level that lead to cardiovascular break down over time. Those who are exposed to less loud noise have less chances of heart disease than those who are constantly exposed to loud noises.
For my original research I need someone who had some experience with heart diseases or a bit of knowledge about the topic, so I went to my trustworthy and one of my closest friends, Rene Hart, she had told me that she had pre-diabetes when she was younger, because she was obese, lacked physical activity, and liked to eat foods with lots of sugar. She talked about the changes she had to make in her life so that she could get back on track and start to live a healthier lifestyle. Rene was also generous enough to talk about her family members that were also affected by heart conditions. Rene helped me learn more about a topic that I was unsure of which is childhood diabetes. I was still left wondering if heart disease ran in her family which led her to a higher risk for it. For my Agent of Change, I want to try to starting to help out kids my age so that they have a lower risk of gaining heart disease, and I think that starts with changing the foods that are being served during lunch, to something a bit healthier.
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