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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.

The Framingham Report defined being at "low risk" for Coronary Artery Disease (at any age) as a person with a combination of all the following parameters:

Blood pressure <120/<80 mm Hg
Total cholesterol 160 to 199 mg/dL (or LDL-C 100 to 129 mg/dL and HDL-C >45 mg/dL for men or >55 mg/dL for women in a nonsmoker.
No diabetes.

- American College of Cardiology

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

Hoag Hospital Among Top Hospitals in CA for Bypass Surgery

"Earlier Valve Fix Urged"
OC Register article

"Finding a Silent Killer"
Daily Pilot article

"Hoag Clinic Keys on Heart Valves"
OC Register article

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