Focus on: Promotion of Cardiovascular Health (II)Promotion of Cardiovascular Health at Three Stages of Life: Never Too Soon, Never Too LatePromoción de la salud cardiovascular en tres etapas de la vida: nunca es demasiado pronto, nunca demasiado tarde
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INTRODUCTION
Coronary disease is largely a consequence of lifestyles that are not particularly heart-healthy. Hypertension, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus maintain a direct relationship with the lifestyle of each individual. Recent data show that these life habits are acquired early on in life, specifically at around 3 years to 8 years, and, moreover, that they persist from childhood to adulthood. Thus, promotion of cardiovascular health in childhood
CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH PROMOTION IN CHILDHOOD: THE SI! (SALUD INTEGRAL) PROGRAM
The preclinical substrate of atherosclerotic disease (lipid material) begins at early ages and its development largely depends on nonheart-healthy behavior that determines exposure to risk factors. Low exposure of adults to risk factors is associated with a decrease in cardiovascular death, increase in survival, and improved quality of life.1
Population studies have revealed the importance of health promotion, primordial prevention (defined as preventing the adoption of risk factors), and
Grenada Heart Study
The Grenada Heart Study resulted from conversations between the principal investigator and a panel of representatives from the United Nations concerned by the imminent CVD epidemic who were looking for a suitable model in countries with limited incomes.
Located in the Caribbean Sea, the island of Grenada has a population of 104 487, the majority of African descent. Because the island has recently undergone a process of Westernization, it currently has rates of hypertension and diabetes mellitus
VASCULAR DISEASE IN OLD AGE: RELATIONSHIP WITH DEGENERATIVE DISEASE
Atherosclerosis is an omnipresent disease that affects almost the entire arterial tree. One of the more representative examples of the systemic nature of atherosclerosis may be the relationship between coronary disease and NDD, whose main manifestation is dementia.
Dementia includes AD, vascular dementia, and poststroke dementia. Although AD is the form of dementia that is most frequently diagnosed in the older population, the cognitive alterations caused by vascular disease, such as subclinical
CONCLUSIONS
Cardiovascular disease is complex and responds to different risk factors, most of which are modifiable and acquired in the earliest stages of life. Once behaviors are acquired, they are carried over to adulthood. Modern society has developed environments that typically fail to help individuals to acquire and maintain heart-healthy life habits. All of these factors have led to the adoption of new intervention models that aim to facilitate heart-healthy and persistent behavior from childhood. In
CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS
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