What is the primary prevention of coronary heart disease?

Prevention: Primary prevention implies preventing the disease from ever happening. Secondary prevention implies preventing a second complication after having a first complication. Primary prevention would include healthy diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes, weight loss, and lowering cholesterol.

Lifestyle: There are risk factors you can't control, like family history and diseases you've had that put you at risk. Most of the risk factors are within your control, such as diet and exercise to keep you LDL low and your HDL high. Discuss preventive measures with your doctor as everyone can benefit from this, get regular checkups and blood tests to help plan prevention. Do not smoke or take drugs.

Preventing 1st prob.: Primary prevention of coronary heart disease is the act/task of preventing the first problem: heart attack, stent, bypass surgery, etc. Secondary prevention is preventing an event after on has already occurred. So preventing a second heart attack or preventing a heart attack after bypass surgery, etc. Primary prevention is great because heart disease fatalities are very common.

Initial prevention: Primary prevention is the prevention of disease, in this case coronary artery disease through actions such as exercise and diet. Secondary prevention is early detection, e.g. By treadmill testing. Tertiary prevention is the prevention of complications after an event, e.g. Cardiac rehab after a heart attack.