Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease from an Early Age
Atherosclerosis is the most frequent disease of arteries characterized by lumen reduction of blood vessel due to local thickening of internal blood vessel by plaque/atheroma [1-3]. It is now one of the leading causes of death in developed countries. Of the ten most common causes of death, diseases of the heart and blood vessels, as a result of atherosclerosis, accounts for six of them. Atherosclerosis begins in childhood, the patient goes a long time without developing symptoms, increasing with age and at about 50 years of age, atherosclerosis seriously begins to threaten health. As a cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis is an interdisciplinary problem that is treated by: cardiologists, neurologists, epidemiologists, nutritionists etc.