Aging Changes In The Heart And Blood Vessels
The "aging process" causes specific cardiovascular changes. This leads to reduced physical and mental ability. Aging is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Scientists a have learned great deal about the interaction of aging with cardiovascular disease related changes and have identified risk factors for both heart and vascular aging, and heart disease.
- How Badly Are Your Arteries Hardening With Aging?
- What Happens To The Inner Layer Of Your Arteries As You Become Older?
- The Atherosclerotic Process
- The Battle is Not Over Yet
- The blood itself changes slightly with age.
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The Battle is Not Over Yet
You can join in the battle occurring within you arteries by becoming aware of the risk factors that increase the likelihood for atherosclerosis to occur and that determine its severity and by taking steps required to reduce these risk factors. The most widely recognized risk factors are controllable risk factors. These are high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, cigarette smoking, diabetes, obesity and lack of exercise.
Newer risk factors continue to be identified.
Unfortunately age itself has been identified as the major risk factor for atherosclerosis. It is becoming clear that the risk conferred by age is attributable in large measure to the vascular aging process described above. Some doctors are now beginning to realize this and research is underway to design drugs that will combat the vascular aging process, which as noted above, is not identical with atherosclerosis, but intertwined with atherosclerosis as time goes by. Fortunately, like atherosclerosis, the vascular aging process can be impacted by exercise and perhaps diet. We will discuss how aging, via exercise and a proper diet, can reduce your risk for atherosclerosis in an upcoming article.
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