Take heart: New insights into protecting yours
When it comes to heart health, you’ve heard it a million times: Keep your lousy LDL cholesterol, blood pressure and weight in the normal range, and chances are you can cut your risk for clogged arteries, angina, heart attack and stroke.
Yet cardiovascular disease affects 85.6 million American adults and is the No. 1 killer of men and women. But it’s not just older folks who have such health problems.
While 43.7 million Americans with CVD are 60 or older, 39.9 million are younger than 60! That’s why it’s worth repeating the basics of good heart health, and then exploring a couple of new ways to protect your ticker.
The Five Steps
A study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that men could reduce their risk of heart attack 80 percent by following these five steps — and we know they work for women too!