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Inviting Heart Disease: The Couch Potato Connection
While you're sitting still, your heart is beating at 70 to 80 contractions per minute (unless you're extremely fit). With each contraction, the right ventricle discharges about three-quarters of the blood [more…]
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Promoting Heart Health with a Physical Activity Program
To keep your heart healthy and disease-free, you have to exercise it — after all, the heart is a muscle. And if you already have a heart problem, maintaining an exercise program recommended by your medical [more…]
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Warning Signs of Heart Attack
Acknowledging the warning signs of a heart attack can be clouded by fear, denial, or unawareness. If you experience warning signs of a heart attack — even if you've never had any sign of heart trouble [more…]
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Unmasking Myths about Heart Disease
It's no surprise that myths about heart disease often prevail. After all, the heart is a truly mythic organ — the fount of all life. Throughout the world's cultures, heroes and heroines of mythology and [more…]
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Tips for Lowering Stress to Prevent Heart Disease
Stress is known to be bad for your health — especially your heart. To minimize stress and maximize a heart-friendly lifestyle, use the following suggestions: [more…]
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Guidelines for Heart-Healthy Nutrition
If you have heart disease or want to prevent it, paying attention to what you eat is crucial. The tips in the following list point to the basic requirements for a heart-friendly diet: [more…]
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How to Manage Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Minimizing your chance of developing heart disease is a matter of common sense and incorporating heart-healthy activities into your life. The following list contains five keys to a heart-healthy lifestyle [more…]
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Reviewing Risk Factors for Stroke
A stroke occurs when a blood clot or bleeding suddenly interrupts the flow of blood to an area of the brain. When deprived of blood, brain cells lose their ability to function and, if deprived for too [more…]
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Understanding the Dangers and Causes of Hypertension
Hypertension isn't called a killer for nothing. High blood pressure is a significant risk factor for developing coronary artery disease (CAD), the leading cause of death in the United States, and it's [more…]
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Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Heart Disease
When you're being evaluated for heart disease or any other condition, asking the questions in the following list can help you get the information you need: [more…]
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Treating Unstable Angina
When tests reveal that you have narrowing of one, two, or three of the coronary arteries, your physician develops a plan for how best to treat your unstable angina. This plan may include the use of medicines [more…]
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Major Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease
Several factors help determine whether you face a high risk of developing heart disease. You can manage many of these risk factors to help prevent coronary artery disease and the attendant problems. Do [more…]
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Heart Disease For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Even thinking about heart disease is no fun, but preventing it from happening in the first place (or managing heart disease if you do develop it) is often a matter of controlling your risk factors, eating [more…]
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