HEALTH
Legs - vital clues in heart failure
Want to live 100 years! Do 7 things
London: People can live up to 100 years if they take care of seven simple things in everyday life, a leading cardiologist has claimed.
Clyde Yancy, a Canadian cardiologist, says changes to lifestyle such as keeping a healthy weight, not smoking and controlling your cholesterol levels are an easy way to add an extra decade or more to your life span, the Daily Mail reported.
Yancy says 90 percent of people can live to the age of 90 and even reach 100 by following his advice. The other steps include regulating blood pressure, managing diabetes, eating a healthy diet and being active.
"Achieving these seven simple lifestyle factors gives people a 90 percent chance of living to the age of 90 or 100, free of not only heart disease and stroke but from a number of other chronic illnesses including cancer, "Yancy is all set to tell experts from around the world at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.
"By following these steps, we can compress Life-threatening disease into the final stages of life and maintain quality of life for the longest possible time," he says.
There are nearly 2.7m people living with heart disease in the UK. It kills one in five men and one in seven women – equivalent to 250 deaths everyday.
Around 200,000 people die each year from conditions related to circulation, including strokes, heart disease, costing the NHS 30 billion pounds a year.
The risks of all these could be reduced by controlling high blood pressure, which is known as the ‘silent killer’ because it has no symptoms.
London: Doctors tend to treat heart muscles when the organ reels under an attack, over-looking the condition of the legs, which could provide vital clues in treating the condition, new research says.
Heart failure causes breathlessness and fatigue that severely limits normal daily activities such as walking.
A University of Leeds research team, shown that leg muscle dysfunction is related to the severity of symptoms in heart failure patients, the Journal of Applied Physiology reports. "Many chronic heart failure patients complain of leg fatigue during exercise and this can prevent them from being active," says Harry Rossiter, of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University.
"Our study shows that by warming up properly, patients can improve the oxygenation and performance of their leg muscles, which is beneficial in promoting exercise tolerance," he adds.
In a series of experiments with chronic heart failure patients, the research team measured responses of the heart, lungs and leg muscles following a moderate exercise warm-up, according to a statement from the university. Using a near-infrared laser to measure the oxygenation of the leg muscles, they found that warm-up- exercise increased the activity of skeletal muscle enzymes that control energy production.
Heart failure causes breathlessness and fatigue that severely limits normal daily activities such as walking.
A University of Leeds research team, shown that leg muscle dysfunction is related to the severity of symptoms in heart failure patients, the Journal of Applied Physiology reports. "Many chronic heart failure patients complain of leg fatigue during exercise and this can prevent them from being active," says Harry Rossiter, of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University.
"Our study shows that by warming up properly, patients can improve the oxygenation and performance of their leg muscles, which is beneficial in promoting exercise tolerance," he adds.
In a series of experiments with chronic heart failure patients, the research team measured responses of the heart, lungs and leg muscles following a moderate exercise warm-up, according to a statement from the university. Using a near-infrared laser to measure the oxygenation of the leg muscles, they found that warm-up- exercise increased the activity of skeletal muscle enzymes that control energy production.
Want to live 100 years! Do 7 things
London: People can live up to 100 years if they take care of seven simple things in everyday life, a leading cardiologist has claimed.
Clyde Yancy, a Canadian cardiologist, says changes to lifestyle such as keeping a healthy weight, not smoking and controlling your cholesterol levels are an easy way to add an extra decade or more to your life span, the Daily Mail reported.
Yancy says 90 percent of people can live to the age of 90 and even reach 100 by following his advice. The other steps include regulating blood pressure, managing diabetes, eating a healthy diet and being active.
"Achieving these seven simple lifestyle factors gives people a 90 percent chance of living to the age of 90 or 100, free of not only heart disease and stroke but from a number of other chronic illnesses including cancer, "Yancy is all set to tell experts from around the world at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.
"By following these steps, we can compress Life-threatening disease into the final stages of life and maintain quality of life for the longest possible time," he says.
There are nearly 2.7m people living with heart disease in the UK. It kills one in five men and one in seven women – equivalent to 250 deaths everyday.
Around 200,000 people die each year from conditions related to circulation, including strokes, heart disease, costing the NHS 30 billion pounds a year.
The risks of all these could be reduced by controlling high blood pressure, which is known as the ‘silent killer’ because it has no symptoms.
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