A conversation with Dr Shidali Vincent, a consultant cardiologist and head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Keffi exposed the urgency to always check up on our heart because its problem is an emergency. The heart, being a muscular organ, pumps blood throughout the body. It is found on the left side of the chest, which beats 75 times per minute on average.
The heart is one of the body’s most vital and delicate organs. If it does not function properly, all other organs, including the brain, begin to die from lack of oxygen within just a few minutes. In a deeper conversation about hypertension (high blood pressure), Dr Shidali went on to expand the need for every adult to do a routine check-up to be able to detect it early and help control it.
If you have high blood pressure, the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls is consistently too high. The heart has to work harder to pump blood. The heart, being a muscle, tends to expand.
Untreated, high blood pressure increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and other serious health problems. Healthy lifestyle habits such as not smoking, exercising and eating well can help prevent and reduce the risk of high blood pressure. From our conversation, we deduced cheat codes, or whatever you may call it, to have a healthy heart.
These are not just hearsay, tested and trusted lifestyle changes to having a healthy heart. Fruits and Veggies: They are not just lifesavers, they are wholesome an.