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Coronary Artery Disease |
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FAQs about Coronary CT Scan
Leading a Healthy Lifestyle
You Can Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
Risk factors are lifestyle habits and personal characteristics that contribute to the likelihood of developing heart disease. Some risk factors such as smoking, weight and lack of physical activity can be changed. Others like high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol can be controlled with medication and diet. Only age, race and family history are out of your control. Now is the time to customize your own plan for heart-healthy living. Along with your physician and Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute, start work on your heart improvement plan today.
Hoag offers a variety of classes/lectures on heart and vascular related topics. For more information click here.
Hoag Healthy Heart Facts
- Two factors are key to your heart health: heredity and lifestyle. You can do something about your lifestyle - your activities, habits, and the choices you make every day. - American Heart Association
- Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute has been helping Orange County live healthier with its Heart Month education programs since 1986.
- Three main risk factors contribute to Coronary Artery Disease, blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. To learn more about possible risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease visit the American Heart Association, www.americanheart.org.
- People who have an excessive accumulation of body fat are more likely to develop heart disease and stroke even if they have no other risk factors. - American Heart Association
- According to recent estimates, one in four U.S. adults has high blood pressure. - American Heart Association
- Lack of physical activity is now clearly shown to be a risk factor for heart disease, the No. 1 killer in America. - American Heart Association
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