Risks for heart disease and some tips

2023-08-17 07:47:00, Shëndeti Ilir Allkja

Since in the daily routine, I often encounter patients who have a number of disorders, which they refer to as "arrhythmia", I am describing some elements of care for these patients.

Diet, exercise, and other lifestyle factors affect your risk for heart disease. The main risk factors for heart disease, as well as the predisposition itself, are all closely related to the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.

Can a heart-healthy lifestyle prevent atrial fibrillation?

Can it reduce his symptoms?

There is preliminary evidence that addressing risk factors for heart disease may improve long-term outcomes for people with atrial fibrillation. On a practical level, this could mean fewer episodes of fibrillation and improvements in symptoms, in short, a better quality of life for those suffering from this disorder.

The ability of lifestyle changes to reduce the burden of atrial fibrillation remains an active area of ??research.

In addition to medications and other standard treatments for atrial fibrillation, you must:

- If you smoke, quit.

- Control high blood pressure, so that the systolic BP numbers are not above 130 mm Hg.

- Get regular treatment for sleep apnea if you have it.

- Maintain a normal weight, obesity worsens heart disease, fibrillation as well.

- Do not drink alcohol or consume only in moderate amounts.

- Keep your cholesterol and triglycerides within normal values.

- Do regular exercise, walking in nature, this is valuable for those who live on the outskirts of Tirana, or in the districts.

- Be sure to ask your doctor or pharmacist about any new medicines you take, including over-the-counter medicines you take yourself and herbal supplements. Sometimes these can interact in a harmful way with warfarin, xarelto etc... oral anticoagulants, or rhythm control drugs.

Although there are limits to your ability to prevent or treat atrial fibrillation with a healthy lifestyle, most people are able to control troubling symptoms long-term with medications, procedures, or both.

That said, some people do maintain safe or effective medications, but that's not enough.

Other complementary measures are necessary to increase the efficiency of the medication given by the cardiologist.

Often patients who seek emergency services for cardiac cases, including atrial fibrillation, are overweight or who do not control their blood lipids and physical activity.

You should, with "good behavior" towards yourself, minimize the risk of stroke, the most dangerous complication of this heart rhythm disorder, which is often fatal. Life comes once, it must be appreciated!