The easiest thing to think could be that children are not affected by heart diseases because they are young. Sadly, this is not true!
On the contrary, children are saddled with a wide range of heart diseases ranging from congenital heart diseases to acquired heart diseases.
In addition to this, there is an increasing incidence of high blood pressure being reported in children which reminds us that lifestyle risk factors for adult heart diseases such as obesity, smoking, and alcohol actually begin in adolescence.
Heart healthy life styles from childhood translate to heart healthy lifestyles in adult age and therefore empowering the children to make heart healthy decisions will go a long way to ensuring a healthier adult.
This year, PAN joins the World Heart Federation to urge individuals to care for their heart and that of their young ones.
Let us take action!
Use Heart for action!!
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