Preventing
Heart Disease
Last year, 1.25 million Americans had heart attacks. But a heart attack does not have to be in your future. With some common-sense, practical changes you can make in the way you live -- to help reduce your chance of having a heart attack and to live a heart-healthy life.
In many cases, heart disease can be prevented and even reversed. On this web companion to the Healthworks special "Healthy Heart" you can learn:
- What heart disease and heart attacks are
- The role smoking plays in heart attacks
- How to develop a heart-healthy approach to eating
- Why even moderate exercise can lengthen your life
- What options are available to treat heart disease
- Why women should be concerned about their heart's health
- The warnings signs are of an oncoming heart attack
This web site is the companion to the Healthworks special Healthy Heart. This program is a local production of Prairie Public Television and funded by Dakota Medical Foundation and viewers like you.
Preventing Heart Disease pages were written by Patrick Brown.
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