From 1993 to 2003 cardiovascular
disease death rates declined by 22.1 percent. Yet despite
the drop in absolute numbers, heart disease is still
the leading cause of death in the U.S. Unfortunately,
not many people realize how serious this issue is,
according to a top U.S. research cardiologist. “We've
done a good job of advertising to people that we're
doing better with heart disease, so people tend to
sort of feel good about it,” said Dr. Robert
Califf, director of the Duke Clinical Research
Institute.
As a result, heart disease… “is sort of
accepted as part of the background noise, even though
it's far and away the mostly likely reason that you
or I will die,” Califf said.
More than 910,000
Americans still die from heart disease annually, according
to the American Heart Association, and more than 70 million live with some form
of heart disease, which can include high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease,
stroke, angina (chest pain), heart attack and congenital heart defects.
And these
numbers are likely to grow, according to Califf. “We're
just on the front end of the baby boomer epidemic,
where the projections on the amount
of cardiovascular disease are climbing steadily over the next 10 years,” he
said. According to Dr. Steven Nissen, president of the American College of Cardiology
and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, “We're
delaying the disease, but we're not preventing it.”
Mounting
a Strong Defense
Prevention is vital to fighting heart disease, say
experts, and Americans know what to do: Eat a healthy
diet, keep their weight in check, exercise and
don't
smoke. Unfortunately, many of the recent gains made in fighting heart disease
have been countered by a dramatic increase in the incidence of obesity and
diabetes. Roughly two-thirds of Americans are overweight
or obese, according to the National
Center for Health Statistics, and the epidemic is spreading to teenagers and
children.
Preventing
and Supporting Recovery from Heart Disease
When it comes to heart disease, prevention is vastly
preferable to treatment. And if heart disease is diagnosed,
natural methods for supporting and enhancing
the heart's normal healing process are of increasing interest to patients, especially
in light of growing concerns over the use of stents and other invasive procedures.
CardioPhase® is
a unique herbal formula used throughout China to strengthen heart function
and support recovery from various cardiopathic conditions.
CardioPhase underwent a series of stringent
animal and human trials before being approved for use
in Chinese hospitals for chronic congestive heart failure
and other
cardiac disorders.
Following its approval in 1999, numerous
cardiology departments at leading
hospitals in China continued to conduct clinical trials showing excellent
and statistically
significant results. CardioPhase was shown to alleviate myocardial damage
induced by anoxia (lack of oxygen) and ischemia (lack of blood flow) to heart
tissues.
CardioPhase may also reduce pulmonary arterial blood pressure, improve microcirculation
and enhance cardiac output while reducing clinical symptoms such as high
blood pressure, shortness of breath, angina, palpitation
and dizziness.
