Risk Factors for Heart Disease and How To Improve Them

Posted on February 24, 2009

 

Here are “Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease”1 and how to improve them.  [If this is too small to read, use your browser's zoom function].

Look at the “Nonmedication Methods to Improve” column.  Any common methods in there?

Ok, perhaps this is over-simplified, but for most people, these methods will reduce the risk of heart disease.

Lifestyle does matter.

  1. Philip E. Allsen, Joyce M. Harrison and Barbara Vance, Fitness for Life: An Individualized Approach, 6th ed (Boston: WCB/McGraw Hill, 1997) 49. [↩]

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Comments

  • Emily

    Funny how the common ingredient in heart health is exercising and eating right. Maybe if we all tried harder to do these things from the beginning and took more of a preventative approach we wouldn’t need so many medications to counteract the damage we’ve done to our hearts.

  • Blake Hagen

    @Emily Well said.

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  • http://www.barker.org Justin Reeves Burke

    Recent research has found that chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes, occur in people who are vulnerable to them because they were poorly nourished in the womb. If the diets of girls and young women are improved the burden of chronic disease will reduced in the next generation. Purchase the book, Nutrition in the Womb at http://www.barker.org to learn more.

  • Blake Hagen

    @Justin Reeves Burke

    Interesting thoughts. I haven’t seen the research but more reason for everyone to try to live healthier. We can’t control how our mothers ate while we were in the womb. But we can control how we eat now.