Heart Disease

What Can I Do to Lower My Risk of Heart Disease?

Making changes in your lifestyle is a proven method for reducing your risk of developing heart disease. While there are no guarantees that a heart-healthy lifestyle will keep heart disease away, these changes will certainly improve your health in other ways, such as improving your physical and emotional well being. Also, because some risk factors are related to others, making changes in one area can benefit other areas.

Here are some ways you can reduce your risk of heart disease.

Quit smoking.

Improve cholesterol levels.

Control high blood pressure.

Control diabetes.

Get active.

Eat right.

Achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

Manage stress.

Control diabetes.