Significance of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular Disease

Significance of cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease occurs due to the significant impact on heart
and blood vessels. Cardiovascular disease includes stroke, heart
attack, and other heart diseases. Cardiovascular diseases may be
caused by high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol,
and alcohol consumption. Cardiovascular diseases can be prohibited
by healthy eating habits, regular exercise and by limiting alcohol
consumption. To prevent cardiovascular disease it is necessary to treat
hypertension, diabetes and high blood lipids with drugs that in turn
reduces the risk of stroke or any other cardiovascular disease (Murad,
Atta-ur-Rahman and Bian, 2017). The most common type of
cardiovascular disease is coronary artery disease. In this particular
disease, plaque gets accumulated in the artery narrowing them which
in turn decreases the blood flow to the heart. This coronary artery
disease can lead to heart attack.
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Impact of cardiovascular disease on individual, family, and
community
Cardiovascular disease imposes significant impact on an individual.
The risk factors associated with heart stroke and diseases are physical
inactivity, unhealthy diet and commotions of tobacco and alcohol.
Thus, an individual with cardiovascular disease should eat healthy
foods, carry out physical exercise and avoid tobacco and alcohol. If
any particular member of the family suffers from heart attack then all
other members of the family have to make certain adjustments
accordingly. If the primary bread earner of the family gets a heart
attack or stroke and cannot go out to work, it increases pressure on the
other members of the family. Women heart patients suffers from
anxiety because they are the primary caretakers of the family. A
patient suffering from cardiovascular disease gets depressed because
of unstable health, physical limitation, and social limitation (Goodlin
and Rich, 2015). Cardiovascular disease affects society by decreasing
the psychological soundness of the masses. The overall wellbeing of
society gets hampered.
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