INDIA, Jan. 17 -- You reap what you sow; this remains true for heart health as well. Coronary artery disease usually manifests at an age of 50s and 60s or later-most of the time this is due to years of negligence towards heart health.
To have a healthy heart in your 50s, you should start putting efforts in your 20s only .
Coronary artery disease is a result of numerous risk factors present for several years and decades. These risk factors include diabetes, hypertension, history of smoking, dyslipidemia, obesity, lack of physical exercise, environmental pollution, stress, increasing age and family history of heart disease.
While most of these risk factors are preventable, years of exposure to these risk factors leads to gradual build up o...