Prevention - Kanta Medicos

Despite being largely preventable, cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than 20.5 million deaths every year.

An estimated 80% of cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke, is preventable.

The main elements of CVD prevention are healthy diet, physical activity, avoiding tobacco, and “knowing your numbers”

Having a healthy, active lifestyle can help prevent CVD

35M people have an acute coronary or cerebrovascular event every year

High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for CVD globally

There are many risk factors associated with heart disease and stroke. Some risk factors, like family history, cannot be modified, while others, like high blood pressure, can be modified through lifestyle interventions and treatment. Millions of people worldwide struggle to control the risk factors that lead to cardiovascular disease, and many others remain unaware that they are at high risk.

The most important behavioural risk factors of heart disease and stroke are unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and harmful use of alcohol. These behaviours can lead to raised blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, overweight, and obesity, which can in turn be measured in order to assess an individual’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

While individual choices play a part in these behaviours, government and policymakers also play an important role in ensuring people have access to the tools they need to live a healthy life, including clean air, affordable healthy food, and well-planned urban spaces that encourage an active lifestyle. Health policies that create environments where healthy choices are not only available, but also affordable, are essential for motivating people to adopt and sustain healthier lifestyles.

Addressing just one risk factor, such as exercising more, will help, but in order to significantly reduce your risk of CVD, it’s important to look at your lifestyle as a whole. If you are already living with CVD, staying healthy and active can help you live longer and reduce the chances of it getting worse.

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The Major activity of Kanta Medicos is WholeSale and Export, Sub-classified into human health activities and provides thousands of prescription medications on both brand name and generic labels.