Health professionals joined Madrid is Heart Week.
Madrid, June 2 .- The health professionals in Madrid, both hospitals and health centers and emergency services have been added today to the XXVI Heart Week, which is taught to prevent cardiovascular disease to lead healthy lifestyles and to act in case of stroke.
The Deputy Minister of Health Management and Infrastructure, Belen Prado, attended the inauguration in Plaza de, sto credits, Espana This Week, organized by the Spanish Heart Foundation and on this occasion is celebrated with the theme "Lighten your heart. Being overweight is a risk. "
The aim is to draw attention to the citizens to be aware of the dangers of the location of fat in the abdomen and learn to control it through a heart-healthy diet and regular physical exercise.
Most, sto credits, cardiovascular diseases have some common risk factors, although some can not be changed, if possible prevent others, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, presence of diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle and consumption of snuff, recalled the Community.
The Deputy Minister emphasized that all public health infrastructure of the Community, both health centers and hospitals, help prevent cardiovascular disease through various programs of, gods and heroes gold, prevention and control of risk factors.
Has affected the cardiovascular diseases represent the second leading cause of death in the region, slightly behind the tumors, both men and women, through episodes of ischemic heart disease (myocardial infarction) and stroke.
The Community of Madrid has one of the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease mortality in Spain, with 163.9 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants, compared to the national rate of 203.7.
One of the participants at the XXVI Heart Week is to serve the capital city of Samur-Civil Protection, which has set up a tent in showing the "arousal Program, through which is taught to alert the population and practice resuscitation is a case of cardiac arrest.
The "arousal" may be children up to 6 years, which is taught to tell properly, act calmly, if a person in your environment has a heart attack, as explained to Dr. Montserrat Marcos , head of Training Division of Civil Protection.
For children over 12 years and adults are also taught to open the airway and perform a heart massage until emergency services arrive, thus reducing the possibility that the victim dies.
Samur-monitors have taught Civil Protection this morning to dozens of children from different schools and adults of all ages who have practiced with mannequins, and will continue tomorrow morning at Plaza de Espana well as in the subway station Nuevos Ministerios and Friday in Legazpi. pgm