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

·        Don't smoke or use tobacco.

·        Get moving: Aim for at least 30 to 60 minutes of activity daily.

·        Eat a heart-healthy diet.

·        Maintain a healthy weight.

·        Get quality sleep.

·        Manage stress.

·        Get regular health screening tests.

Four Signs of a Silent Heart Attack

·        Chest Pain, Pressure, Fullness, or Discomfort.

·        Discomfort in other areas of your body.

·        Difficulty breathing and dizziness.

·        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:

·        Not smoking. One of the best things you can do for your health is to not use tobacco in any form.

·        Maintaining a healthy weight.

·        Exercising.

·        Following a healthy diet.

·        Improving sleep health.

Self-Check

·        Chest pain, tightness, or pressure lasting for several minutes.

·        Nausea, indigestion, heartburn, stomach pain, or vomiting.

·        Breaking out in a cold sweat for no obvious reason.

·        Sudden dizziness or lightheadedness.

·        Pain that radiates down the left side of your body (generally starts from the chest and moves outward)