Can heart and blood vessel disease be inherited?

[healthyheart.MD]

Can heart and blood vessel disease be inherited?

Yes. A tendency toward heart disease or fatty buildups in arteries seems to be hereditary. That means children of parents with heart and blood vessel diseases may be more likely to develop them. Race is also a factor. African Americans have higher risk of developing high blood pressure. This makes their risk of heart disease and stroke greater.
A family history of diabetes (di"ah-BE'teez or di"ah-BE'tis), gout, high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol also increases the risk of heart disease.
A number of genes have been reported to be associated with heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure in large population-based studies. However, the impact of each individual gene on an individual person is not fully understood.
A person with a congenital heart defect is slightly more likely than the general public to have a baby with a congenital heart defect. Researchers are now identifying genes responsible for causing some of these defects.
Even though you can't change your genetic makeup, you can reduce your risk by adopting a healthier lifestyle that includes physical activity, a healthy diet, and avoiding tobacco.
You can learn more about your family history by asking questions, talking at family gatherings, and looking at family medical records, if possible. Try to learn about the medical history of your grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, siblings, and children. You should try to find out the following:

• Major medical conditions and causes of death.
• Age of disease onset and age at death, and
• Ethnic background.

Please share your family history information with your doctor. Your doctor will:

• Assess your disease risk.
• Recommend lifestyle changes to help prevent disease, and
• Prescribe laboratory or clinical tests to detect disease early

[juliadesusa]

Yes Of-course Heart and the blood vessel Disease are inherited.If the parents have the problems in the Heart functions then most of the child will also get that type of problems.But if you take care from the childhood then they do not suffer more from this disease.For that you have to maintain your Diet chart.Always avoid fatty and the oily food it will really helpful for you.

[marollyjeard]

I think it was possible because these both things are related to each other. And for heart disease a fat and high cholesterol in body is more responsible for that. And having over weight get increase heart stroke risk. So avoid fat contain food mostly concentrate on exercise it was best for body and health.

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