How to Reduce Your Risk for Heart Disease:
Choose a Heart Healthy Lifestyle.- Engage in regular moderate aerobic exercise for at least 30 minutes five days a week or more vigorous workouts at least 20 minutes three times a week.
- Adopt a diet low in salt, saturated and transfats and high in unsaturated fats (fish, avocado, etc.) like the Mediterranean Diet.
- Maintain a normal body weight with caloric adjustment.
- Avoid smoking and recreational drug use.
- Imbibe no more than ½ to 1 alcoholic beverage per day.
Your physician may recommend medications to control cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes.
Avoid hormone replacement unless you have severe menopausal symptoms.
In selected cases, it may be necessary to conduct non-invasive or even invasive tests to determine the nature and severity of the heart disease.
Sometimes angioplasty/stenting or even bypass surgery may be needed if you have severe and symptomatic arterial blockage.
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