The higher the blood cholesterol, the more chances a person will have developing a heart disease. There are varieties of things that can result in high cholesterol such as diet, weight, physical activity, and heredity. Foods with saturated fat increase your blood cholesterol levels. By reducing the saturated fat and cholesterol in regular diet helps lower the blood cholesterol levels. Mostly Overweight is caused by high cholesterol, being overweight is a risk factor for heart disease. Not being able to take care of the body physically can also cause heart disease. Regular physical activity or at least moderate physical activity can be beneficial to heart health. Your heredity information also has role to play in heart disease, it partly determines how much cholesterol the body makes. High blood cholesterol can run in families.
Secondly, cigarette smoking is one of the major causes of heart attacks in Canada. It increases the chances of all major forms of heart disease. Smoking is responsible for more deaths due to heart disease than due to cancer. Smoking is a major cause of coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis) - a disease of the arteries in the heart. Cigarettes have many poisons that include addictive nicotine, carbon monoxide, tars, and hydrogen cyanide. There are 4,000 other chemicals of varying toxicity, including 43 known carcinogens. Smoking causes the oxygen to decrease in the body, it increases the blood pressure and heart rate, it increases the risk of developing heart disease, increases blood clotting, causes many other infections such as respiratory infections, and it damages the cells that line coronary arteries and other blood vessels. Smokers have 70% chance of dying from coronary heart disease than non-smokers.
Thirdly, excessive alcohol use can cause diseases related to cardiovascular. Drinking excessive amount of alcohol can raise the blood pressure of human body. But it has concluded in some studies that individuals who do not drink alcohol are at a higher risk for heart disease than those individuals who consume one drink of alcohol a day.