Heart Disease on the Rise Once Again in the United States
Recently, researchers from the Mayo Clinic and the University of Columbia analyzed autopsy information from over four hundred individuals who had passed away in Olmsted County, Minnesota of unnatural causes such as murder, suicide, or accidents between 1981 and 2004. What they discovered was that most of the individuals ages 16- 64 had clogged coronary arteries. In fact, about eighty three percent of the deceased individuals showed signs of early coronary artery disease and another eight percent had significant coronary artery disease.
Heart disease rates in the United States climbed in the twentieth century until the sixties, when rates began to decline due to decreased tobacco use and life style changes. However, all of this began to change with the introduction of the computer and more sedentary lifestyles (both work and play). At the same time, schools reduced the importance of physical education, fast food chains expanded, and we saw increased consumption of processed carbohydrates and sugar, which in turn has led to an explosion of obesity in the United States.
The convergence of all these factors may be responsible for the demise of four decades of steady decline in the rate of coronary artery disease (such as atherosclerosis). Researchers are conducting a second study of the same dates to determine how large a role diabetes and obesity may have played in the increased incidence of heart disease.
A second unique study performed at the Hattiesburg Clinic in Mississippi analyzed data from a federal study of patients with hypertension. The study attempted to discern whether or not hypertension patients had been able to adhere to a diet that helps control hypertension. The study compared patient data in the years 1988 – 1994, and also in the years 1999 – 2004. These study dates were important because a 1997 study indicated that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables with low fat diary products lowered hypertension.
Researchers were somewhat surprised to find that even with the information available to patients from the 1997 study, hypertension patients were still choosing to eat worse not better. In this study, the youngest group was the group that was found to have the worst disease incidence, which, of course, confirms the effect of poor eating habits combined with sedentary lifestyle (the inference being that younger individuals had been influenced most by the use of electronic technologies such as computers, game systems, and other technological advances).
This study confirms the findings of the Mayo Clinic study in that younger individuals are most affected by the current trends. Consequently, younger individuals may be destined to have major problems as they age.
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Heart disease rates in the United States climbed in the twentieth century until the sixties, when rates began to decline due to decreased tobacco use and life style changes. However, all of this began to change with the introduction of the computer and more sedentary lifestyles (both work and play). At the same time, schools reduced the importance of physical education, fast food chains expanded, and we saw increased consumption of processed carbohydrates and sugar, which in turn has led to an explosion of obesity in the United States.
The convergence of all these factors may be responsible for the demise of four decades of steady decline in the rate of coronary artery disease (such as atherosclerosis). Researchers are conducting a second study of the same dates to determine how large a role diabetes and obesity may have played in the increased incidence of heart disease.
A second unique study performed at the Hattiesburg Clinic in Mississippi analyzed data from a federal study of patients with hypertension. The study attempted to discern whether or not hypertension patients had been able to adhere to a diet that helps control hypertension. The study compared patient data in the years 1988 – 1994, and also in the years 1999 – 2004. These study dates were important because a 1997 study indicated that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables with low fat diary products lowered hypertension.
Researchers were somewhat surprised to find that even with the information available to patients from the 1997 study, hypertension patients were still choosing to eat worse not better. In this study, the youngest group was the group that was found to have the worst disease incidence, which, of course, confirms the effect of poor eating habits combined with sedentary lifestyle (the inference being that younger individuals had been influenced most by the use of electronic technologies such as computers, game systems, and other technological advances).
This study confirms the findings of the Mayo Clinic study in that younger individuals are most affected by the current trends. Consequently, younger individuals may be destined to have major problems as they age.
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