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Guarding Your Heart: Strategies to Prevent Heart Attacks
How do I prevent having a heart attack?
· Get regular physical activity to help you maintain a healthy weight and lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels.
· By living a healthy lifestyle, you can help keep your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels normal and lower your risk for heart disease and heart attack.
Strategies to prevent heart disease
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Don't smoke or use tobacco.
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Get moving: Aim for at least 30 to 60 minutes of activity daily.
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Eat a heart-healthy diet.
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Maintain a healthy weight.
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Get quality sleep.
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Manage stress.
· Get regular health screening tests.
Four Signs of a Silent Heart Attack
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Chest Pain, Pressure, Fullness, or Discomfort.
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Discomfort in other areas of your body.
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Difficulty breathing and dizziness.
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Nausea and cold sweats.
· Know The Silent Signs of a Heart Attack — And Don't Ignore Them.
Five key lifestyle steps can dramatically reduce your chances of
developing cardiovascular risk factors and ultimately heart disease:
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Not smoking. One of the best things you can do for your health
is to not use tobacco in any form.
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Maintaining a healthy weight.
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Exercising.
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Following a healthy diet.
· Improving sleep health.
Self-Check
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Chest pain, tightness, or pressure lasting for several minutes.
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Nausea, indigestion, heartburn, stomach pain, or vomiting.
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Breaking out in a cold sweat for no obvious reason.
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Sudden dizziness or lightheadedness.
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Pain that radiates down the left side of your body (generally
starts from the chest and moves outward)
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