We have known for some time that the prevention it is essential for our health but what about the elderly peopleespecially their cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, there have been different and sometimes conflicting results, But on European Heart Journal, Jenni Lehtisalo and his colleagues at the Institute of Medicine of the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio (Finland), have published a population study from the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study that gives important results. Reports the messenger that 1259 subjects between 60 and 77 years were analyzed. A half of them was carried out periodic multifactorial control consisting of interventions on the food dieton‘physical activity e mental (through specially programmed physical and mental exercises) and in addition a periodic check of the cardiovascular system. The other half, on the other hand, continued their normal daily life with possible checks recommended by the family doctor.
The results speak for themselves: stroke and ischemic attacks they are transient reduced by 29 percent in the intervention group compared to the control subjects and the heart attacks of 16. But be careful, because in subjects who had previous cardiovascular diseases before the research, cerebro-vascular accidents decrease by about 50 percent and cardiovascular ones by 60 percent.
We also know that many heart disease may be of interest the brain (for example atrial fibrillation can lead to acute ischemic cerebral attacks such as a stroke) and vice versa major stress and other brain diseases can cause heart damage such as arrhythmias or heart-related diseases. Therefore, the prevention of risk factors protects the heart and brain, particularly in the elderly population.