{"id":47641,"date":"2022-09-13T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vrystaatkroon\/south-africans-should-take-health-to-heart-20220913-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:06:23","slug":"south-africans-should-take-health-to-heart-20220913-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vrystaatkroon\/south-africans-should-take-health-to-heart-20220913-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans should take health to heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_37831176\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heart\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/7131\/b0f6bdc5c42f4ca3b97d2f35f503d3f5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/7131\/9c9a1b7f1bb749cc9c545a83d4360272.jpg\" title=\"South Africans should start watching their heart health.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">South Africans should start watching their heart health.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\">Aziz Acharki\/Unsplash<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Deaths due to cardio\u00advascular disease are on the rise in South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revelation comes after a new study by researchers in the Human Molecular Biology Unit in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Focusing on the South African population, the study discovered that men and women of European descent over the age of 50 were the most vulnerable to the development of atherosclerosis, the most common disorder associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Walter Janse van Rensburg, senior lecturer and principal researcher, said nearly half of men and more than a third women in this group had visible signs of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries of the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janse van Rensburg said that the study had been conceptualised during 2020\u2019s Covid-19 pandemic, due to reports of excessive blood clots associated with both acute Covid-19 infection and some of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said limited data existed in our region regarding the other underlying causes for blood clot formation, such as atherosclerotic plaque rupture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data was collected during 2021 out of more than 10 000 case files spanning over ten years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe study is still ongoing. 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