Ethnicity and Heart Disease

Your ethnicity can play a part in your heart's health due to genetic predispositions. By knowing your risk factors, you can manage your lifestyle and keep heart disease at bay.

Ethnicity

Reducing the risk of heart disease

The higher your risks, the greater the benefit you get from reducing your risk factors. Many of the risks of having a heart attack come from factors we can change.

These tips could help:

Avoid food rich in saturated fats (like butter), as they can increase “bad” LDL cholesterol
Having a waist over 90cm (for a man) or 80cm (for a woman) increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease
If you have a family history of diabetes, raised cholesterol or heart attack, talk to your GP about cholesterol testing
Get active: regular exercise is proven to cut your risk of heart disease. Keeping active can also increase “good” HDL cholesterol
Eat a wide variety of fruit and veg, aiming for 5 portions a day
If you’re overweight, cutting your weight by 10% can raise your HDL by 8% and reduce LDL by 15%
Look for healthier alternatives to the ghee (clarified butter) that is used in South Asian cooking
Quit smoking. Even one cigarette a day raises your risk of heart disease

Ethnicity and Heart Disease

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