It extends until Monday 29 the 34th Week of the Heart
The incorporation of physical exercise, periodic controls and a healthy and balanced diet are fundamental when maintaining good cardiovascular health.
These are the pillars on which this 34th edition of the Cardiovascular Health Week that began on Monday 22 and extends until September 29 is supported.
“It is organized from the Honorary Commission for Cardiovascular Health that is very intertwined with the Ministry of Public Health and carries out the guidelines of the Pan American Health Organization” expressed the Licensed Liliana Denis.
“One more year that brings us together, that brings together educational, health and social institutions, to work on this healthy lifestyle habits to prevent cardiovascular diseases that statistically represent a very important number in our country” added.
These diseases are preventable. “This is the reason why in these instances we celebrate this week. We ask the institutions that make the link to put the issue again in the daily conversation and in the habits of all Uruguayans. We have to have healthy eating, physical exercise, a life with less stressors to prevent these diseases. important for health teams and a challenge for the person who suffers from it and their surroundings ” The Departmental Health Director remarked.
Main cause of death in Uruguay
“Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in our country” recalled the Nutritionist Andrea Rivero.
“What we are looking for with this week is to focus on the factors that prevent these diseases because the most important thing is that there are many factors that are preventable and that we can change them with simple modifications in habits” assured.
He revealed that 80% of hypertensive people do not know what they are, hence the importance of performing periodic controls. “For this we will have a lot of activities that are already happening since the beginning of the month. They can attend Camcel 2 from Monday to Friday from 8 to 20 hours and the rap polyclinics. This is for the entire population” reported.
The CEAS and progress schools will install stands in different parts of the city to carry out these blood pressure controls.
“The blood pressure that is kept high for a long time brings complications for the entire cardiovascular system, for the heart, for circulation” said.
“The closure of the heart week will be held on Friday, September 26, at the 14th, will consist of a walk from Plaza Independencia to Plaza de Deportes where activities will be developed” Andrea Rivero highlighted.
“This walk is organized by us together with different educational institutions that were actively participating in the diagramming of the schedule of activities” pointed out.
“With this we seek to encourage physical activity that is not just going to a gym or doing a specific sport, it is simply moving. With this we want to show them that you can also walk, which is something simple, that most people can do it, and we are promoting a cardiovascular protector” affirmed.
