HEALTHFOR ALL
Understanding little hearts
- Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Children have pure hearts, but this, unfortunately, does not mean they are immune to heart disease.
A healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and nutritious food habits should be developed at a young age.
There was a study on children's coronary arteries conducted through autopsies and it was found, quite surprisingly, that arterial cholesterol build-up could be detected in children as young as 10 years old, and in particular, in those that had family members with abnormal cholesterol. This was not only true for those in Western countries, but also those in Thailand.
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