ISSN: 2576-4772
Authors: Pathak A, Singh P, Nath M, Das M and Prakash A*
Despite knowledge and information that most of the chronic health problems including heart disease along with several other health problems are quite preventable, currently various types of heart diseases are leading causes of global death. Within the given context, some major types of heart diseases are myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure, stroke, complex renal disease, sexual dysfunctions like erectile problems etc. Several researches have shown that there are variety of enriched food items which have a high nutritional importance (called nutraceuticals) and quite capable of preventing such deadly diseases. The present work is a review article on current status of various nutraceuticals in preventing and treating abovementioned hypertension and several cardiac complications. For the purpose, various online major databases have been searched. In conclusion, it was observed that several vitamins, vegetable and spices with some other nutraceuticals like lycopene are quite useful in preventing almost all types of general cardiac diseases and hypertension.
Keywords: Nutraceuticals; Food; Heart Disease; Diet; Cardiac Problems; Hypertension; High Blood Pressure
