The Mediterranean diet protects against heart attack
Many people at risk of heart attack or stroke, can reduce cardiovascular risk only with the help of the Mediterranean diet, especially in the same degree that would be provided if you were taking statins, according to British scientists.
The British doctors believe the Mediterranean diet potentially as effective as those widely prescribed class of drugs and said it would reduce the dependence of many people on statins.
Scientists, who made a notice published in the medical journal "Prescriber", according to the British "Guardian", consider that the Mediterranean diet, combined with exercise and smoking cessation, may well replace the need for treatment with statins. Ypostirizounm episism that doctors should inform their patients about the pros and cons of statins and decide whether the latter will take these medications, according to the Athens agency.
Many millions of people around the world regularly take statins, which lower cholesterol and, by extension, cardiovascular risk.
According to a new cardiological "formula" whoever man appears to be at risk of 10% to suffer a heart attack or stroke over the next decade (based on a number of risk factors) should take statins, while in the past the "threshold" for their administration was 20%.
The British scientists argue that the vast majority (80%) of heart disease caused by lifestyle (unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking, etc.), so the relative risk could be reduced without drugs, but only by abandoning bad habits.
Researchers note that only a limited percentage of patients actually benefit from statins, which also may cause side effects such as muscle aches (5% to 10% of people who take them), and diabetes (1%).
As mentioned, although the statins can protect a human at 40 not xanapathei second heart attack or stroke, much less proportionally people (including one at 50 and one in 200), which are relatively healthy and have never suffered a cardiovascular event, live more due to certain medicines.
Many people at risk of heart attack or stroke, can reduce cardiovascular risk only with the help of the Mediterranean diet, especially in the same degree that would be provided if you were taking statins, according to British scientists.
The British doctors believe the Mediterranean diet potentially as effective as those widely prescribed class of drugs and said it would reduce the dependence of many people on statins.
Scientists, who made a notice published in the medical journal "Prescriber", according to the British "Guardian", consider that the Mediterranean diet, combined with exercise and smoking cessation, may well replace the need for treatment with statins. Ypostirizounm episism that doctors should inform their patients about the pros and cons of statins and decide whether the latter will take these medications, according to the Athens agency.
Many millions of people around the world regularly take statins, which lower cholesterol and, by extension, cardiovascular risk.
According to a new cardiological "formula" whoever man appears to be at risk of 10% to suffer a heart attack or stroke over the next decade (based on a number of risk factors) should take statins, while in the past the "threshold" for their administration was 20%.
The British scientists argue that the vast majority (80%) of heart disease caused by lifestyle (unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking, etc.), so the relative risk could be reduced without drugs, but only by abandoning bad habits.
Researchers note that only a limited percentage of patients actually benefit from statins, which also may cause side effects such as muscle aches (5% to 10% of people who take them), and diabetes (1%).
As mentioned, although the statins can protect a human at 40 not xanapathei second heart attack or stroke, much less proportionally people (including one at 50 and one in 200), which are relatively healthy and have never suffered a cardiovascular event, live more due to certain medicines.
