High blood pressure causes your heart to pump blood with too much force, wearing down the heart faster and putting you at risk of developing heart failure.
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Heart Disease Is on the Rise in Young Adults. Here’s What You Can Do.
When you picture a heart attack, what comes to mind? For many, the image is of an older adult, often an older man, clutching his chest and coughing as he falls to the floor or hunches over himself while sitting in a chair. That imagery is so common because movies and TV shows often depict…
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10 Guilt-Free, Heart-Healthy Snacks to Reach For
It’s a common belief that snacking throughout the day can be the downfall of your diet or your mission to improve your heart health—and it’s true that if you snack on the wrong things, you’ll likely sabotage your efforts, even if your regular meals are clean and healthy. By choosing heart-healthy snacks alongside healthy meals…
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Start Strengthening Your Heart Health With These 4 Small Changes
Achieving heart health requires one of two things—making healthier lifestyle changes and keeping up with heart-healthy habits once we’ve adopted them. Making healthy lifestyle changes and sticking to them is the key to improving heart health, preventing heart disease, or managing heart disease if you already have it. But switching from unhealthy habits to healthy…
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Can a Better Diet Reverse My Heart Disease?
Sometimes, uncontrollable or hard-to-control health factors can contribute to the development of heart disease, like: Genetic predisposition Viral infections Necessary medical treatment, including chemotherapy Other, more controllable risk factors for developing heart disease can include: High blood pressure High cholesterol Diabetes Obesity Drug and alcohol consumption Tobacco use If you are at an uncontrollable risk…
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