“Cholesterol deposits rising at alarming rates” – 37 Military Hospital
At Ghana’s 37 Military Hospital, a senior physician has raised concern over the growing toll of strokes linked to everyday lifestyle choices, urging the public to rethink what they eat before it costs them their health.
Dr. Thomas Agbemaple explained that the majority of stroke patients arriving at health facilities are suffering from ischaemic strokes, a condition triggered when blood vessels feeding the brain become blocked. He noted that eight out of ten cases fall into this category, underscoring the scale of the problem.
“There are two types of stroke. There is a stroke resulting from a blood vessel rapturing called Hemorrhagic Stroke and there is stroke resulting from a blood vessel being blocked called Ischemic stroke. Now, 8 out of 10 people who have a stroke will have an ischaemic stroke, that is blood clogging in the vessels,” he said.
The physician linked the surge to diets increasingly dominated by fried foods and oils. He warned that cholesterol deposits in blood vessels, a direct consequence of these eating habits, are piling up at “alarming rates.”
“Ischaemic stroke is cholesterol deposition in the walls of the blood vessels and this is a lifestyle problem. The cholesterol comes from oils and fats in your diet so to the point that our diets these days have been increasingly westernised with high oil and fat content, the incidence of cholesterol deposition in the walls of the blood vessels is now increasing at alarming rates. People’s diets are now heavily laden with fats and oils. We eat a lot of fried foods,” Dr. Agbemaple cautioned.
While haemorrhagic strokes, caused by ruptured blood vessels, remain a serious threat, Dr. Agbemaple stressed that the dominance of ischaemic cases points to preventable risk factors. His remarks highlight a growing public health challenge: the collision between modern eating habits and cardiovascular disease.
Source: Citinewsroom
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