Risk Factors for Vascular Ageing - Dr. Vasan S S

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• published: 30 Apr 2016
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When you say risk factor for vascular aging, it is just abuse of the body we presumed that there is always this notion is nothing can go wrong with me and that is the fundamental concept we all believe in because I have a healthy when I was 20, I was able to do a lot of things and my body will support me whatever I do. So we insult the body what are the insults, we put on weight with lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol, bad eating habits, stress around so and along with that will develop comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension, triglycerides and we don't go for regular check-ups we don’t manage the diabetes we believe that I can control, it I can manage, nothing will go wrong with the body. So what happened the body we all know that age will catch up with us eventually whatever we do, so on top of that if we also insult the body by these mechanism we become more prone. So all these leads to aging, the first thing that get affected is elastic structure of the body changes because we are loading the body or we are loading the vascularity with unnecessary insults and what starts off as a smooth balloon, I'm giving you a knowledge or a comparison we make it rough balloon and we expected to perform the same way as a smooth balloon, it'll never do. So vascular raging is a consequence of both our own insults which will give to the body as well as what we develop along the way because of our genetic makeup because of poor disease pure management or our life and work style stresses and added to that the environmental insults. All this gives you a bad blood vessel which gives you a bad heart and consequently that is why men in India are more prone what is we called sudden cardiac death syndrome. We hear a lot of our colleagues who come and tell us nothing was wrong with him, he was perfectly alright, yesterday I saw him but today morning he dropped it. So consequently you can't recognise these insults unless you are active and you take care of your body.