If you’re a traditional-age college student, you may
have difficult time realizing the importance of cardiovascular health. Unless you were born with a heart problem,
it’s easy to think that cardiovascular damage will not occur until you reach
your 50s or 60s. during your young adult
years, you’re much more likely to be concerned about cancer and sexually
transmitted diseases.
Yet autopsy reports on teenagers and young adults who
have died in accidents are now showing that relatively high percentages of
young people have developed changes consistent with coronary artery disease;
that is, fatty deposits have already formed in their coronary arteries. Since the foundation for future heart
problems starts early in life, cardiovascular health is a very important topic
for all college students.
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer
of Americans; between 1990 and 2000 the death rates from cardiovascular disease
(CVD) declined 17%. The American Heart
Association, in its 2004 Heart and stroke
Statistical Update, credits this reduction to a combination of changing
American Lifestyles and medical advances in the diagnosis and treatment of CVD.
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