Healthy Lifestyle, Press Risk of Heart Failure

Similarly, heart failure, which in medical terms is called the "Heart Failure or Cardiac Failure", is a medical emergency in which the amount of blood pumped by the heart each minute is not able to meet the needs of the body's normal metabolism.

Recent research suggests, the adoption of a healthy lifestyle - including no smoking, regular exercise, eating lots of vegetables, and maintain ideal body weight can still prevent many cases of heart failure.

The findings were based on observations for 14 years to more than 18,000 men and almost 20,000 women aged 25-74 years in Finland. In women, moderate exercise was associated with reduced risk of heart failure by 13 percent.

Meanwhile, physical activity at higher levels was associated with decreased risk of heart failure by 33 percent in men and 36 percent in women.

Researchers say eating vegetables 3-6 times per week were also associated with a reduction in heart failure by 26 percent in men and 27 percent in women compared with those who rarely ate vegetables.

"Every step you take to stay healthy, can reduce the risk of heart failure,

"Hypothetically, about half of new cases of heart failure in this population and could be prevented if everyone involved is applying at least three healthy lifestyle behaviors," he added

According , healthy habits have a cumulative effect, meaning that the more often people run it, the greater the reduction in risk for heart failure