Cardiovascular disease (CVD) classifies a range of illnesses that involved the heart and blood vessels (i.e. arteries and veins). CVD is a technical term that refers to a disease that affects the cardiovascular system and conditions that relate to causes, mechanisms and treatments upon the heart organ system including all things related to atherosclerosis. You doctor is only trained to treat the symptoms, for example, applying angioplasty in order to open blocked blood vessels. The mechanical widening of a narrowed or obstructed vessel is no cure; it is only delaying the inevitable. The key to CVD however is prevention!
The rate of CVD related deaths have dropped for men, however for women the rate is relatively unchanged. High cholesterol coupled with high C-reactive protein (CRP) a plasma protein that is produced by the liver can be a measure for inflammation and give a warning on an individual0s risk for CVD. C-reactive protein or C-polysaccharide is a polysaccharide found in the cell wall of pneumococci and precipitated by this protein from carbohydrates. What happens is the inflamed artery gets a build-up of fatty streaks of oxidized low-density lip-protein (LDL cholesterol). Once the arteries are lined with LDL cholesterol these become nucleation points […]

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