Doc Fio

Health risk intervention means all effort that are done to reduce your chance to get sick,

It involves both medication and non medication approach.

 

Non medication approach means that the intervention would not need doctor prescription,just recommendation but yet a very substantial thing called Lifestyle modification/ changes. Medication approach is needed when lifestyle modification in some condition fails to help you reduce your risk, or by risks factor assessment conducted by doctor, medicine is also needed to overcome your risk factor, for example; when your blood pressure level is above 150 over 90, you are going to need both Lifestyle changes and also hypertension drugs. 

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Lifestyle modification generally includes :

1. Quit Smoking

2. Increase physical activity

3. Reduce weight, when you are overweight/ obese

4. Healthy Diet

5. Stress management

6. Limit alcohol intake

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In Risk factor detection, you see that there are types of risks factors, all those risk factors are grouped int two :

Modifiable and Non modifiable risk factors,

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Modifiable means you can do something about the risks factors to reduce your chance getting sick, and in the contrary, in non modifiable you can not. 

 

Modifiable risk factors include:

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1. Smoking

2. High blood pressure

3. High Blood sugar

4. Physical inactivity

5. Being overweight

6. High blood cholesterol.

7. Sexual contact history​

8. Occupation (exposure to certain agents causing disease)

and many more.

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The effect of these modifiable risk factors can be reduced if you make lifestyle changes. 

 

Non-modifiable risk factors are:

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1. Age

2. Gender

3. Ethnic background/ Race

4. Family history of particular disease (heart disease, breast cancer, diabetes, etc)

5. Genetic, genetic mutation or deficiency 

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Age.

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The older you are, the more likely you are to develop coronary heart disease or to have a cardiac event (angina, heart attack or stroke

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Ethnic background.

 

South Asians living in the UK are twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease compared to the rest of the UK population. Also, people from African Caribbean backgrounds have a higher than average risk of developing high blood pressure. But remember that you can still reduce your risk as much as possible by controlling your other risk factors.

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Gender.

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The incidence of cardiovascular disease is known to be higher in men than in women of similar age, and this gender difference is more prominent at a younger age and is partly explained by protective effects of sex hormones. On the other hand, female patients with coronary artery disease have been reported to be more likely to have a worse cardiovascular risk factor profile

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Family history.

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Your own risk of developing coronary heart disease is increased if: your father or brother was diagnosed with the disease, or had a cardiac event under the age of 55 your mother or sister was diagnosed with the disease or had a cardiac event under 65. If you have a family history of heart disease, it may help to reduce your own risk if you look at what the risk factors affecting your family member were.

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Genetic, genetic mutation or deficiency​.

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Genes can also pass on other conditions, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels.

Both of these conditions increase the risk of getting disease such as coronary heart disease.

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Health risk intervention sometime involve medication.

For example :

1. Blood pressure medication

2. Lipid lower medication​

3. Drug for obesity 

4. Chemotherapy for breast cancer (high risk)  

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Talk to your doctor about your health risk intervention plan, and how to maintain your lifestyle changes.

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