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Show Precautions to cut heart disease risk are given happened since the first Heart Fund Campaign in 1949. Concurrent Con-current with the development of the Heart Association's research re-search program has been a 6 percent decline in the death rate from cardiovascular disease dis-ease among men in their most productive years. This improvement improve-ment reflects not only new research re-search advances, but also gains in the physician's knowledge as to their application, and above all else a willingness on the part of the patient to accept them. During these 15 years the stroke mortality rate dropped 22 percent and the hypertension hyperten-sion (high blood pressure) death rate 44 percent among American males in the 45-64 age bracket. Although there was a slight increase in the death rate from heart attack, the decreases in all other categories cate-gories were sufficient to produce pro-duce the overall 6 percent decline. de-cline. "There's nothing much in today's to-day's papers for kids. It's one of the things that is bothering thoughtful publishers, for the youngsters today aren't drifting into newspaper reading as we older folk did." "Instead of getting all riled up when you receive a statement state-ment of account in the mail, you should b e genuinely pleased For the bill is an indication indi-cation that someone has faith in you." "During the last century, the man who saved money was a miser; today he's a wonder." "The machines that once did away with horses is now doing away with people." Medical opinion has strengthened strength-ened its belief that, by cooperating cooper-ating with your physician, you can lessen the risk of becoming be-coming a victim of heart and circulatory disease. Persuasive evidence is beginning to pile up that you can improve your chances of living longer by taking tak-ing certain reasonable health precautions. The precautions fall into these general categories: Regular Check-ups. This is an absolute must. More people must realize that something can be done about heart disease dis-ease if it is diagnosed early. Worrying about symptoms and indulging in self -diagnosis never nev-er helped anybody. High Blood Pressure: If a physical examination disclosed you have this disorder, your doctor will be able in most instances in-stances to bring it under control. con-trol. Dietary Fats: Following a physical examination, which includes in-cludes your medical history, your doctor may tell you to reduce re-duce your fat intake, and advise ad-vise you to get a greater proportion pro-portion of your fat requirements require-ments from poly-unsaturates such as vegetable oils. Obesity: Excessive overweight over-weight is accomplished by a higher degree of risk to your heart and health. Only a doctor doc-tor is qualified to tell you how and when to diet. Exercise: Regular and moderate mod-erate exercise is desirable. If in doubt about the amount and kind of exercise, get medical advice. Smoking: Your doctor can tell you how cigarette smoking reduces your chanaces for longer long-er life. He can also tell you how important it is for you to stop smoking if you are a "coronary "cor-onary prone" person. Tensions: Avoidance of needless need-less fears and tensions, and cultivation of inner tranquility, will make life much more pleasant, and improve your health. In this series, we shall take a closer look at precautions aimed at. guarding against cardiovascular car-diovascular diseases that great complex of disorders responsible re-sponsible for over 54 percent of all deaths, and affecting over 10,000,000 living Americans. Ameri-cans. We have every reason to be optimistic. It is now well established es-tablished that some forms of heart disease can be prevented, some -can be cured, others can be controlled, and almost all cases can be helped by prompt medical treatment. More knowledge know-ledge about heart disease has been accumulated in the past 15 years than in the preceding 15 centuries. Take for example, what has |
