Leading Health Risks To Men – Part I

A trend noted states that men have been comparatively less healthy than women ever since infanthood. Taking an average estimate, despite the narrowing gender gap, men have been observed to pass away 5 years prior to their wives. The rationale behind this statistic would be that men tend to be ignorant regarding health matters and mostly visiting the doctor only when matters escalate.

Despite feeling in the pink of health, one needs to pay particular attention to our health so as to optimally maintain it. The top cited health risks that men face include:

Heart Disease: Cardiovascular disease and stroke has been deemed the widely leading reasons for fatalities globally in either sex with a logical estimate of one from five individuals dying from heart disease. It is known as atherosclerosis that means clogging or hardening of the arteries is truly man’s nastiest foe. In heart disease, there is an eventual build up of cholesterol plaques that eventually narrow and restrict the arteries of the heart and brain. An unsteady plaque leads to the formation of blood clot that obstructs the artery leading to a stroke or heart attack.

For causes mostly fuzzy, it has been noted that the arteries of men tend to develop atherosclerosis before women do, with a common observation that averages men’s normal age of demise due to heart ailments was below 65years while women were noted to follow suit nearly six years after.

Experts have pointed out that even adolescent boys displayed inferior arterial health in comparison to the female counterparts at that age, the partial reason being that women having innately elevated HDL or good cholesterol levels.

Men would seem to have to put in significant efforts to decrease that chances of developing cardiovascular disease and stroke that would entail religiously following the below said instructions.

• Regular check up of cholesterol starting from 25 years to be followed up at a five year interval.
• Regulating one’s levels of blood pressure and cholesterol to normal levels at all times.
• Quitting smoking.
• Raising the extent of some form of physical exercise to half an hour every day to be followed on majority of the days in the week.
• Increasing the intake of fresh fruits and veggies and lowering the levels of saturated or trans fats in one’s daily diet.

The fatal and debilitating cardiovascular disease is avertable if one follows adequate measures stated above.

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