One can prevent heart attacks. Nine preventable risk factors are responsible for 90% of heart attacks. They are (in order of importance)
- Increased LDL/HDL ratios (elevated bad LDL and low good HDL cholesterol levels)
- Smoking
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Abdominal obesity
- Psycho-social (stress or depression)
- Failure to eat fruits and vegetables daily
- Failure to exercise
- Failure to drink adequate water
One can prevent heart attack by following Doctors excellence formula of eighty
- Keep lower BP, bad cholesterol levels, resting heart rate, fasting sugar and abdominal girth levels all less than 80.
- Keep kidney and lung functions more than 80%
- Engage in recommended amounts of physical activity (minimum 80 minutes of moderately strenuous exercise per week). Our recommendation is to walk 80 minutes a day and for 80 minutes per week the speed should be 80 steps per minute
- Eat less and not more than 80 gm or ml of caloric food each meal. Follow a healthy diet (high fiber, low saturated fat, zero trans fat, low refined carbohydrate, low salt, high in fruits). Refined carbohydrates are white rice white maida and white sugar.
- Observe cereal fast 80 days a year.
- Doing 80 cycles of pranayama (meditation) a day
- Spend 80 minutes to yourself every day (relaxation, meditation, helping others etc)
- Do not smoke or be ready to spit out 80,000 Rs for treatment. Not smoking or else you will have to spend 80,000 on your illness.
- Those who drink, does not want to stop and there is no contraindication, limiting alcohol use to no more than 80 ml per day for men (50% for women) or 80 grams per week. 10 grams of alcohol is present in 30 ml or 1 oz of 80 proof liquor.
- Take 80 mg of aspirin if prescribed for prevention.
- Tale 80 mg atorvastatin for prevention when prescribed.
One can prevent diabetes by controlling five lifestyle factors.
They are
- Follow a healthy diet
- Maintain an optimal body weight (less than 23 x height in meters x height in meters)
- Engage in recommended amounts of physical activity.
- Limiting alcohol to recommended amount.
- Not smoking.
Rules
- Rule of 30 seconds: Chest pain, burning, discomfort, heaviness in the center of the chest lasting for over 30 seconds and not localized to a point unless proved otherwise is a heat pain.
- Rule of pin pointing finger: any chest pain which can be pin pointed by a finger is not a heart pain.
- Rule of forty: First onset acidity or first onset asthma after the age of 40, first rule out heart attack or heart asthma
- Rule of 300: Chew a tablet of water soluble 300 mg aspirin and take 300 mg Clopidogrel tablet at the onset of cardiac chest pain. You will not die.
- Rule of ten: Within ten minute of death for the next ten minutes do effective chest compression with a speed of (10 x10) 100 per minute. 80% people can be saved.
- Rule of 180: Reach hospital within 180 minutes in heart attack for receiving clot dissolving angioplasty or clot dissolving drugs
by
AKSHAYA SRIKANTH
Pharm.D Intern
Hyderabad, India
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