Más allá de las varices, 5 pasos para una buena salud vascular

La mayoría de las personas están familiarizadas con las enfermedades del corazón y entienden que esta grave afección puede provocar un ataque al corazón, dolor en el pecho o un derrame cerebral. Por desgracia, pocas personas conocen las enfermedades vasculares, que afectan al sistema circulatorio y pueden incluir enfermedades de las venas y las arterias.

Some vascular diseases are widely known, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm, which affects nearly 200,000 people in the United States each year and can be deadly without treatment. Additionally, patients with diabetes are more likely to develop vascular disease, and those individuals living with both are at an increased risk of amputation, blindness, kidney failure, and other serious disabilities.

You may be familiar with another common vascular condition, varicose veins, the large bulging veins in the legs that affect as many as 40 million Americans and can cause many different symptoms. There is much more to know about vascular disease and the ways to keep your veins and arteries healthy.

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