A heart attack is usually triggered by hardening of the arteries.
Which lifestyle promotes this and whether calcareous water plays a role, explains Professor Hauner.
Cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks are the number one cause of death in Germany. Limescale deposits in the blood vessels (also known as arteriosclerosis) pose a particular danger: they clog the bloodstream, and somewhat the coronary arteries, and in an advanced stage lead to the blood vessel becoming completely sealed. Tissue is no longer supplied with oxygen and dies. If the vessel is not reopened as quickly as possible,
there is a risk of death from a heart attack (vascular occlusion in the heart) or stroke (vascular occlusion in the brain)
. It is therefore important to alert the emergency services at the first signs of a heart or cerebral infarction.
The good news: Lifestyle has a huge impact on the risk of atherosclerosis.
The following factors in particular promote
hardening of the arteries
and thus a heart attack, as the German Heart Foundation informs:
unhealthy diet
Obesity
Sedentary lifestyle
smoking
too much alcohol
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Limescale deposits in the blood vessels from tap water?
Heart expert gives the all-clear
According to the Heart Foundation, these factors favor high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol levels, all of which promote the formation of deposits (plaques) in the vessel walls.
These consist of blood lipids, connective tissue and lime (calcium deposits).
Do you live in a region with extremely calcareous drinking water?
You have ever wondered whether it might be bad for your heart to drink this water?
Professor Dr.
med.
Hans Hauner from the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Heart Foundation gives the all-clear: “
The question of whether a high content of lime in drinking water is connected to the calcification of the coronary arteries can be answered with a clear no
.
There is no connection between the uptake of lime in drinking water and the calcification of the coronary arteries, ”says the heart expert.
Healthy people as well as heart patients can drink hard drinking water without any worries.
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