Is heart disease hereditary

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Recently, I heard about many patients with heart attack. Let me once again sigh that life is full of accidents and life is so fragile. So can heart disease be inherited and make future generations suffer? Let me introduce it.

Is heart disease hereditary

The inheritance of heart disease is first explained by the incidence rate of congenital heart disease in the normal population. The incidence rate is generally 1% (0.6%1.2%). Congenital heart disease is not hereditary disease. However, some families have multiple children suffering from congenital heart disease of different kinds, or many cousins and their parents are ill.

The most important problem of heart disease is physical fitness. For congenital heart disease, it is not a genetic disease, but there are certain genetic factors. If there are genetic factors, it is not necessarily associated with environmental factors, infection in early pregnancy, medication, radiation and other factors.

Researchers have found dozens of genes that play a role in heart disease, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. And even mildly high cholesterol is hereditary. But a large number of cases show that these genes only make you prone to cardiovascular diseases. As long as you control your weight, eat properly and keep exercising, the risk of disease is expected to be minimized.

matters needing attention

When one or both parents suffer from heart disease, it is important to know their age of illness and the time of diagnosis. Tell the doctor about the situation and ask the doctor to help you take certain measures to prevent the occurrence of heart disease.