Men have a tendency to make the following heart-related health mistakes.

The gap between your desire to have a healthy heart and actually taking the necessary steps to keep it healthy can be actually very wide. It is a common tendency in men to take these things quite light-heartedly as some medical experts would like to tell you. Do you make any of the following common mistakes related to the health of your heart that many men tend to make?

1. Resorting to self-medication

It is a practice seen among both genders. They tend to hit the bottles to drown their miseries, work for long hours, resort to chain smoking or even turn to junk food while watching television and feeling depressed. However, men typically indulge in these habits when they are under depression. It is a physical condition that is often associated with heart diseases and guys are not likely to report this condition to the physician.

In case you have started feeling hopeless or sad or even observing some changes in your sleeping or eating habits, tell your physician and request for their advice.

2. Wrongly assuming that you are not old enough to suffer from a heart attack

Men are often under the impression that a guy who suffers from a heart attack would be older. However, this is a misconception as a heart attack can take place even at a young age. If you have a family history associated with early heart attacks, that is one of your close relatives had a heart attack when he was not even 55, or a female relative who suffered from it before she was 65-year-old, there could be higher probability of you going through a similar fate although you could be in your late thirties or early forties. Ideally, men have a tendency to suffer from coronary artery disease a decade prior to the women. It also signifies that if men have a tendency to experience heart attacks while they are in the sixties, women have it in their seventies.

No matter how old you are, indulge in ways of managing the various risk factors like exercising regularly, quit smoking, practicing ways of weight control and having a diet that is healthy for your heart. You should also start seeing a heart care provider to control your cholesterol or high blood pressure.

3. Not taking preventive care

It has been observed that women go for their annual check ups more than men do. It also signifies that men are less likely to get major routine research for blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol that are viral for assessing health of their hearts. Women, on the other hand, are also less likely to be vocal about symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness and chest pain.

In case you are unable to recollect when you had gone for your last physical checkup, make sure you get one fine as quickly as possible. You need to also take a quick action in case your gut feeling says that something is not quite right.

4. Having an attitude that nothing can be done about your heart problems since it is in the family

There is a fatalistic approach like this in many men that since there is a family history of a heart disease. they cannot do anything to avoid it. While a family history is an important contributor, you can lower the risk factors through medications and changes in your lifestyle.

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