The Diet that government suggests for decreasing blood pressure can protect people from heart attack and strokes these are the findings of a large study that gives a fair evidence of it.

Researchers followed more than 88,000 healthy women for almost 25 years. They checked their food preferences and noted how many suffered heart attacks and strokes. Women who had similar eating habits as suggested by the government to prevent high blood pressure were quite protected from the heart disease.

This plan was named as DASH diet and it prefers vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk and plant-based protein over meat. Women with those eating habits were 24% less apparent to suffer a heart attack and 18 % less apparent to have a stroke than women with usual American diets.

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It has been suggested in an article published in the open –access journal PLoS Medicine that there is a relation between coronary heart disease and levels of interleukin-6(IL-6) initiated by inflammation that pulls immune system cells towards injured part.  John Danesh (University of Cambridge) and colleagues also mention that new drugs designed to fight vascular disease may also target the IL-6 protein.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the biggest causes of death in adults in developed countries. When deposits of plaque, calcium, and other cellular waste products harden against the arterial walls (atherosclerosis), there is a discontinuity of blood flow through the body and these blockages in the coronary arteries result in CHD
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