THE CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION BECOMES A MUST FOR THE SUMMER

It is definitely not a fashion fact, but it is certain that for some people the cardiovascular prevention has to become a necessary condition, a seasonal must from which it’s not possible to escape.

In the summertime the heatwaves, especially if there is a moist heat, can represent a real threat for persons with heart diseases. The overheat indeed favors the dilation of blood vessels at the peripheral level overloading the heart for the increase of circulating volume. Moreover, the vasodilation combined with the dehydration, due to the excessive sweating, can cause important pressure drops. So it’s time to do something about it, or rather it is recommended to prevent any danger drinking much water and avoiding the hottest hours. It is a fact that these indications are already known, so it is important that even those who do not suffer heart problems, but who can be defined at risk, undergo a series of preventive tests, also before the summer.

What are these tests?

Besides a specialized cardiologic visit it is necessary to follow some hematochemical tests, as the glycosylated hemoglobin for diabetic patients; the microalbuminuria that fixes the presence of small quantities of albumin in urine that occurs when there is a damage in renal organ in hypertensives. Finally the lipid profile for who suffers of dyslipidemia, that is a quantitative and qualitative alteration of fats circulating in the blood. To these tests must be added the instrumental ones as: electrocardiogram and electrocardiogram to define the organ damage in hypertensives; echo-color Doppler of overaortic truncus indicated for diabetic and dyslipidemic patients.

Which patients must undergo a periodic activity of prevention?

These are patients who show one or more not controled cardiovascular risk factors, as, for example, the hypertensives patients with high pressure values, or dyslipidemic patients with not controled blood cholesterol levels, the diabetic patients with glycosylated hemoglobin values beyond the threshold and finally all those who are familiar with this type of diseases or the alcohol and tobacco consumers as the smokers.