Heart Health: Maintenance and Prevention

Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle choices.

Risk factors for developing heart disease include:

• Age   
• Sex   
• Family history   
• Smoking
• Poor diet  
• High blood pressure
• High blood cholesterol levels 
• Diabetes
• Obesity  
• Physical inactivity 
• Stress    
• Poor dental health

Prevention

Certain types of heart disease, such as heart defects, can’t be prevented. However, the same lifestyle changes that can improve your heart disease can help you prevent it, including:   

• Don’t smoke    
• Eat a diet that’s low in salt and saturated fat      
• Maintain a healthy weight  
• Reduce and manage stress   
• Practice good hygiene     
• Control other health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes   
• Exercise at least 30 minutes a day on most days of the week

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