What Does a Sprained Ankle Have in Common with a Heart Attack?

A sprained ankle and a heart attack have a shared quality – inflammation. Ronesh (Ron) Sinha, M.D., an internal medicine physician with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) recently wrote a health blog in which he offers an explanation of how a sprained ankle is like a heart attack.

In the blog, Dr. Sinha explains why addressing cardiac inflammation is more important than high cholesterol, saying that more than half of heart attacks occur in individuals with normal cholesterol levels. He says that many of these are people diligently taking their cholesterol medications, but still eating the wrong foods, overstressing, oversitting, and accumulating larger amounts of inflammatory belly fat each year.

He also offers detailed advice on how you can prevent these events from happening, including:

• improving nutrition
• exercising
• reducing excess belly fat, and
• calming emotions

Read the complete story called Inflammation: The Real Cause of Heart Attacks

Dr. Sinha is a frequent contributor to the PAMF health blog, which offers patients and the community articles, health tips and videos that promote health and wellness.