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excess weight puts strain on your heart and often raises your risk of other heart disease risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. A balanced diet and regular exercise can help you keep a healthy weight. Talk to your doctor if you need a safe plan...
Heart disease, any disorder of the heart. Examples include coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, and pulmonary heart disease, as well as rheumatic heart disease (see rheumatic fever), hypertension, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditi
A variety of risk factors have been associated with coronary heart disease; examples includehigh blood pressure, elevated bloodcholesterollevels,smoking,obesity,diabetes, unhealthy diet, and family history of early coronary heart disease (i.e., diagnosed in middle age). Individuals withhereditaryconditio...
Heart disease kills more Americans each year than any other disease or illness. It is important to understand what makes heart disease so common and how
Tom Marwick, the director of the institute, said there was an incorrect perception in Australia that cardiovascular disease was under control. "The report is a wake up call... there is a new face of heart disease," Marwick said. Marwick said that cases of irregular heartbeat, which increase...
Heart disease, also called cardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death in the United States, where more than 600 000 people die of heart
Heart disease treatments A high, or at least an increased, risk of heart disease is associated with many aspects of 'modern' lifestyles ('lifestyle factors') and with some medical conditions. Heart disease risk factors can be listed in categories such as: ...
The prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors in law enforcement personnel compared to that in the general population was studied by determining the predicted 10-year risk for developing CHD (CHD10, expressed as %) in subjects from the Iowa Department of Public Safety and comparing...
Heart failure, condition in which the heart muscle does not contract and relax effectively, thereby reducing the performance of the heart as a pump and compromising blood circulation. Heart failure is not a specific disease but the result of underlying c