Heart health
Factors for Heart Disease
While family history and genetics can cause certain heart diseases, there are six major risk factors for heart disease that are both preventable and controllable. Making efforts to manage these factors can reduce risk for a heart attack or stroke by more than 80 percent. And yet, many people live every day with at least one risk factor. Of all Americans: 33.5 percent have high cholesterol29 percent have high blood pressure18 percent smoke cigarettes52 percent are physica...
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