What are some of the predisposing factors?
There are many predisposing factors to these diseases. Smoking, high blood pressure, high fat food, diabetes mellitus, lack of physical active exercises, obesity, particularly abdominal obesity, stress and exhaustion can precipitate episode of sudden death in a vulnerable person. (9) What are the lifestyles/habits that could aid the diseases? Certainly, unconcern attitude to ones own health matters, lack of proper self-vigilance and unresponsive attitude to subtle warning signs can be detrimental. Majority of Nigerians are highly driven people, as a result paying poor attention to need for periodic health screening, medical check ups can proof very fatal. Our diet is by nature loaded with high carbohydrates and unhealthy fat, conscious dietary vigilance, can go a long way. Poor eating habit, eating very heavy meals late at night reduces the body metabolic rate and promotes accumulation of food in fatty form. Smoking certainly predispose to high blood pressure and blood vessels disease,
