Living a healthy lifestyle – or even a somewhat healthier lifestyle – can significantly reduce your risk of developing heart disease. By making even small changes to improve your health, such as losing 5-10% of your body weight if you are overweight, incorporating more physical activity into your day or quitting smoking, you’ll lower the odds you’ll develop heart disease.
There are some risk factors for heart disease that you cannot control, including:
- Family medical history
- Gender (men are at higher risk until a woman reaches menopause, at which point the risk is the same for both genders)
- Age
Other heart disease risk factors are modifiable and can be changed. To help you be as healthy as you can be, Carilion offers information that can help you:
- Quit smoking successfully
- Lower your cholesterol
- Lose weight and keep it off
- Control your diabetes
- Control your blood pressure
- Change your inactive lifestyle
- Help reduce stress and anxiety
Cholesterol Management: Carilion Clinic's Lipid Clinic specializes in the treatment of cholesterol, lipid and metabolic syndromes. Call 540-982-8204 to learn more.
Carilion is committed to continuous community outreach to help you live a healthy lifestyle. Please visit our community calendar for information on screenings, educational programs, and health events focused on heart health, all conveiently located in our Virginia service area.
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