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Today people are just too unaware about their everyday actions they perform that play a vital role in either helping to minimize, delay or prevent the effect of a coronary heart disease or even make it worst; getting a control over the risk factors is the key. Besides a family history of coronary heart disease, you cannot control this but you can surely control your behavior and delay the time as long as possible to when it might get you. Gender and age factor also play a vital role behind coronary heart disease.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest is commonly referred as SCA that means a sudden cardiac death and you will know why it is called so in just a bit. SCA occurs when a heart suddenly stops beating and it is totally unexpected in many cases. When SCA occurs, blood flow to other vital organs of the body including the brain stops immediately, treatment is needed right at the moment to avoid death.

The ‘French paradox’ rears its ugly head again. The reasoning goes something like this: French people eat more saturated animal fat than any other affluent nation, and have the second-lowest rate of coronary heart disease (only after Japan, which has a much higher stroke rate than France). French people drink red wine. Therefore, red wine must be protecting them against the artery-clogging yogurt, beef and butter. The latest study to fall into this myth was published in the AJCN recently (1). Read more [...]