Doctors say people can steps to cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes. These are the leading causes of death around the world. A study from doctors at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and Yonsei University in South Korea that more than 99 per cent of people who a heart attack or stroke at least one warning sign. The doctors said there several major signs: high blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity, high blood sugar, and smoking and drinking. All of these things can reduced if people their lifestyles. The most effective changes are to a healthier diet, exercise, and smoking and drinking.
In the study, doctors 10 years of health records of nine million people in South Korea and 7,000 people in the USA. Nearly all of the patients could have heart attacks and strokes. Lead researcher Dr Philip Greenland said: "We have for many years that there a small number of modifiable risk factors for heart disease, and at least one, but often more than one, present in the background leading up to heart attacks, heart failure, or strokes." He added: "Efforts to be made to that factor to heart attack, stroke, or heart failure." Dr Greenland said: "The goal now to work harder on finding ways to these modifiable risk factors."
