Death from a stroke or heart attack: Every second person can be avoided with a healthy diet

Created: 12/28/2022, 8:30 p.m

By: Judith Brown

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Germany.

Many deaths could be prevented by a healthy diet.

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death in Germany.

Around 100,000 people die from a heart attack and 95,000 from a stroke every year.

Diseases affecting the cardiovascular system are among the cardiovascular diseases.

Researchers examined the relationship between cardiovascular death and the diet of the deceased.

It turned out that every second cardiovascular-related death in Europe could be prevented by a healthier diet.

Stroke: Study examines diet-related deaths

Eating too few whole grains can be responsible for cardiovascular-related deaths, such as from stroke or heart attack.

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, the scientists evaluated

data from 1990 to 2016 from 51 European countries from the Global Burden of Disease Study.

The international research team around Dr.

Toni Meier from the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg analyzed the frequency of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks or strokes, which can announce themselves ten years earlier with warning signals.

They also calculated the proportion of deaths attributable to an unbalanced diet based on food consumption and other risk factors in each country.

For example, the researchers counted an unbalanced diet as excessive consumption of table salt and sugary drinks as well as insufficient consumption of vegetables, nuts, fiber and whole grain products.

The effects of other risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking and lack of exercise were eliminated.

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Avoidable death from stroke: The main risk factor is not eating enough whole grain products

The results showed that out of a total of 4.3 million cardiovascular deaths in 2016, almost half (2.1 million, 49.2 percent) were diet-related, accounting for about 22.4 percent of all deaths.

According to this, every second to third death could have been avoided through a healthier diet.

In Germany, 165,000 deaths (46 percent of all cardiovascular deaths) could be attributed to an unbalanced diet.

According to the study, the main risk factor in Germany was the consumption of too few whole grain products, which was responsible for 429,000 deaths.

This was followed by a diet without enough nuts and seeds (341,000 deaths), too little fruit (262,000 deaths), too little table salt (251,000 deaths) and too little omega-3 fatty acids (227,000 deaths).

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