Cause+of+Heart+Disease+by+Jimmy&June+Shin


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__**- Introduction**__

The causes of Heart Diseases can be divided into two categories: major and contributing risk factors. Major risk factors are the causes that are proven with evidence that it is the reason of heart diseases. Contributing risk factors are causes also thought to be harmful, but their objectives are still unkown.

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- Major Causes of Heart Disease**__


 * Inactivity**
 * Staying still in one place without any movement/ exercise is inactivity.
 * Without exercise, you are not able to control cholesterol levels and burn fat, and blood pressure can be lowered.


 * Smoking**
 * Not only is smoking harmful to your health, it has nictotine to make you addicted to it.
 * Second-hand smoking can also be harmful to both the smoker and people in a closed area.
 * Smoking increases the heart rate drastically, irregularity of heartbeats, increases risk of stroke.
 * The chemicals in cigarette smokes- can harm health in various ways by damaging vessel walls, plaque in arteries, and blood clots leading to heart attacks.


 * Obesity and Overweight**
 * Obesity are meaning that people are overweightedness.
 * It can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and coronary artery disease, and diabetes.
 * Many doctors suggested to use BMI to measure you body fat.


 * High Blood Pressure (Hypertension).**
 * High blood pressure can cause increases of your percentage of having heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
 * The main cause of High Blood Pressure are obese, smoking, or you have high blood cholesterol levels along with high blood pressure and stroke greatly increases.
 * High Blood Cholesterol**
 * Cholesterol is known as a fat-like substance carried in your blood, is found in all of your body's cells.
 * The main cause of high blood cholesterol is resulted by saturated food.(Although we often blame the cholesterol found in foods that we eat for raising blood cholesterol, the main culprit is the saturated fat in food.)
 * Too much low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad cholesterol") in the blood causes plaque to artery hole, resulting atherosclerosis. that can cause a heart disease.
 * Heredity**


 * You can might have a heart disease because your heredity.
 * It is most likely that if your ancestor had a heart disease you will also have it at similar age.
 * For example, studies have shown that African Americans have more severe high blood pressure and a greater risk of heart disease than whites.
 * Age**
 * In fact, about 4 of every 5 deaths due to heart disease occur in people older than 65.
 * The heart's walls may thicken, arteries may stiffen and harden, and the heart is less able to pump blood to the muscles of the body
 * Women 65 and older have about the same risk of cardiovascular disease as men of the same age.


 * __- Contributing Factors of Heart Diseases__**


 * Stress**
 * Stress increases heart rate and blood pressure, which can cause chest pains and need for more oxygen.

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 * Alcohol**
 * Drinking alcohol increases blood pressure, risks of stroke, irregularity of heart rates, and diseases in heart muscles.

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__Quiz__ 1.What is main cause of Heart Diseases? Give at least 3 examples in detail. 2.What do you think the main causes of Heart Disease are? Write top three causes and rate them from the most important to the least.